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Hi All,
Mandrake performing well, but I am having problems
mounting my Windows partition on hda1.
During the boot screens I get a line:
'Mounting local file systems (mntent)
No final new line at end of /etc/fstab'
I am sure that I could remove this last line ( the ^, the h, and the q's
are in the blue colour of vi) but what should the last line look
like? Can anyone tell me please?
Your fstab looks OK, except for the last line. Try removing the last line, and then leaving a line-space at the bottom aswell. I seem to remember the the fstab needs a blank line at the end, for some obscure reason or another.
Adding a line like /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 (assuming you're running a windows using the FAT filesystem) maybe mounts the windows partition in /mnt/windows.
Note that I'm not sure the defaults digits are correct,since I don't have the hda1 partition mounted myself... My hdb1 partition has the digits 1 0 though,so logically hda1 ought to be 0 0,right?
Last edited by matruschka; 07-20-2002 at 12:37 PM.
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