oldefoxx
July 1st, 2010, 08:57 PM
Don't ask me, I didn't know there was a contest going on. But let me.04xplain just a triffle.
I somehow clobbered the install of 10.04 on the first partiton of my laptop drive. I mean it was trashed, so that efforts to boot to it were essentially dead on arrival. That's DOA for some of you out there.
Reinstall did not go anywhere, always coming back to the same hash, because I was trying to salvage what I had under /home. I finally tried a route that I hoped would copy m essential files elsewhere, then opted to first wipe /home,, then do a reinstall with no format. The idea was to see if theproblem actually related to /home or its contents. Apparently not, same messed up mess, to it was something outside of /home that also got left behind if you opted not to do a reformat before install.
I've worked around this issue for days, and have another tread going about this. But here is the really wierd part, the part that seemed to call for a new thread entirely.
There is an unbelievable amount of difference found between the contents of /etc/fstab with the previous installs and the new /etc/fstab that the new install produces. For instance, look at the line for proc and the options selected for it. Then on any reinstall, the installer adds another swap partition for each partition that was flagged as not to be used, but there it is anyway. I mean these partitions were not to be used, but that is what it did anyway.
And as a clincher,the new version of /ewtc/fstab has no entry in it for the CDROM drive.
I mean, what the heck is going on here? You might not note these little things if you did not have a reason for visiting /etc/fstab. mostly because things seem to pretty much be the same, but this is way out of line. I rewrote all the entries in /etc/fstab to comply with what had been there in the old version, and it works as I hoped it would, but this just does not make any sense to me.
I somehow clobbered the install of 10.04 on the first partiton of my laptop drive. I mean it was trashed, so that efforts to boot to it were essentially dead on arrival. That's DOA for some of you out there.
Reinstall did not go anywhere, always coming back to the same hash, because I was trying to salvage what I had under /home. I finally tried a route that I hoped would copy m essential files elsewhere, then opted to first wipe /home,, then do a reinstall with no format. The idea was to see if theproblem actually related to /home or its contents. Apparently not, same messed up mess, to it was something outside of /home that also got left behind if you opted not to do a reformat before install.
I've worked around this issue for days, and have another tread going about this. But here is the really wierd part, the part that seemed to call for a new thread entirely.
There is an unbelievable amount of difference found between the contents of /etc/fstab with the previous installs and the new /etc/fstab that the new install produces. For instance, look at the line for proc and the options selected for it. Then on any reinstall, the installer adds another swap partition for each partition that was flagged as not to be used, but there it is anyway. I mean these partitions were not to be used, but that is what it did anyway.
And as a clincher,the new version of /ewtc/fstab has no entry in it for the CDROM drive.
I mean, what the heck is going on here? You might not note these little things if you did not have a reason for visiting /etc/fstab. mostly because things seem to pretty much be the same, but this is way out of line. I rewrote all the entries in /etc/fstab to comply with what had been there in the old version, and it works as I hoped it would, but this just does not make any sense to me.