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Topic: HD install seems to lose /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab

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daldred

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Posted: April 28 2006,22:22

Hi!

Running DSL on a Libretto CT50; it's happy once running, and handles the Libretto's hibernation nicely so doesn't need much rebooting!

However, if I do actually reboot, it seems to lose some very basic settings - it's as though it fails to notice my /etc/fstab and /etc/hosts files! The hostname gets set to 'box' rather than 'libretto' as I'd like it, and my /home partition (on /dev/hda8) doesn't get mounted. Only a couple of manual steps to get there, of course, but a bit annoying.

Is this normal behaviour for DSL, and is there a way round it?

roberts

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Posted: April 29 2006,00:21

Yes, it is normal behavior. The knoppix-autodetection scripts run upon boot up, same as with liveCD or other frugal installs.

You could try adding the nofstab to your boot loader conf file, be it lilo.conf of menu.lst. And/or possibly add files to the .filetool.lst and use backup restore

eldepeche

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Posted: May 24 2006,23:13

I'm having exactly this problem, except on a Libretto 100CT. I'm trying to move /home to a second partition, but it doesn't get mounted at startup, so if I try to login as a user without first logging in as root and mounting the partition, I get a weird error and have to hard reboot.

The nofstab option just disables Knoppix's (upon which DSL is based) automatic generation of an fstab file; the partition still isn't mounted, but running "mount -a" as root does mount it.

It seems to have something to do with Knoppix's automatic configuration, but it sure is annoying.

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