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Topic: HD-Install boot, fstab, boot without beeing prompted

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saschad

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Posted: 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

roberts

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Posted: 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.

saschad

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Posted: 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

saschad

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Posted: 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

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