I Frucked Up Linux
 

Hi there...hmmmm...HELP!

i was mounting a FAT32 HD and i finally worked it out.....but i mounted the wrong one ....so i went to rename it but it wouldn't let me...so i deleted the mount pt. without thinking that it would obviously delete my precious music collection

I booted into windows to check if infact my music had been deleted (well half of it...) and yes it had been deleted...so i thought ok i will boot back into linux and get it out of the trash......

So I booted into linux and logged on (up to here was fine) BUT when i typed in 'startx' the screen went blank for about 7sec or so and a whole screen of shite came up....which i think teh only important thing on it was the following:

could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

Fatal server error
could not open default font 'fixed'

any clues? i would be very grateful.....!!

p.s. i am using red hat 9.....and i have a working boot floppy...also windows works fine

If all you've done is tried to mount the FAT partition, check the mount point.

Boot into linux as normal. Login (or su) as root and edit the file /etc/fstab. Comment out the FAT mount point, save the file and reboot.

If this is the problem, create a different directory to mount the FAT partitiion to (say /mount/windows1) from the default, and put this in the entry in /etc/fstab)

Let me know if this works...

Dave