HD-Install boot

Forum: HD Install
Topic: HD-Install boot
started by: saschad

Posted by saschad on Feb. 04 2007,13:29

Hello everybody,

I did a hd-install of DSL-3.2 and it works quite fine but there are some things confusing me.
When booting, the System is still trying to mount the cdrom which isn't needed indeed. Editing the /etc/fstab didn't help because on reboot DSL is still making a new fstab.
Giving a boot argument for another home directory e.g.: home=hdc1 doesn't work either because it wont automount.
At least i'd like DSL to boot completely without prompting me for password etc.
Where are the switches???

Thanks in advance

Posted by roberts on Feb. 04 2007,14:01

It would appear that you have chosen a tradtional hard drive installation. As such home=hdc1 is ignored, as that option is only for liveCD or emulations thereof.

When you selected the dsl-hdinstall you chose multi-user option, this means a login and a password prompt in order to specify which user. If you had chosen not to have a multi-user then the system would boot into desktop as user dsl.

For a traditional hard drive installation, you may disable the creation of fstab by adding the nofstab to your lilo or grub "append" section.

Posted by saschad on Feb. 05 2007,17:20

Jippie

the fstab is now boot-proof.

I installed via Mydsl dsl-dpkg.
After that i did the #sudo apt-get update

#apt-get install rungetty (i want my system to boot without login)
vi /etc/inittab
=> 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/rungetty tty1 -u root -- login -f dsl (replace your first respawn entry)
Now my System boots User dsl without prompting

... to be continued
setting up Vnc-Server
setting up Samba (Linneighborhood)
setting up edna

Help and hints welcome

Posted by saschad on Feb. 07 2007,21:07

Still confused I am &)

Can somebody please tell me how to turn off some automations which are still working after hd-install:

1. Partitions in the fstab wont auto-mount. Is there another file disabling my /etc/fstab?

2. Where can i find Information on the mount-tool? It doesn't work ... (but mounting in the shell does)

I'd really like to know ...
or please give me a hint

Thanks
Sascha