Re: [SLE] Messed up my 9.2

On Wednesday 14 December 2005 16:39, B Stia wrote:
> Mark A. Taff wrote:
> >On Tuesday 13 December 2005 15:14, B Stia wrote:
> >>...<snip some>......

<snip>

> Now, the system will boot into SuSE but will drop back to a command
> prompt. I can log in as root and cd
> into any of my directories, including /var and then -ls to see what is
> in there. All OK. But when I cat etc/fstab
> the /var line is not there. The old directory /partition which I
> deleted remains in that file. Sooo, I am pretty sure
> (hopefully) that if I can edit fstab I can make it OK again.
>

That is because the repair tool put /var on the / partition, instead of on
it's own partition. So you do not need an fstab line to mount a partition
that doesn't exist. ;-)

As another poster said, adding another disk, then `rsync`ing /home over to the
new disk is a great way to add room to a system. I weekly rsync every /home
on my network to an old PII machine as a painless easy backup.

vi has two modes, a command mode and an insert mode (text mode). The command
`i` begins text mode, and `[esc]` ends text mode. See:

http://www.collaborium.org/onsite/venezuela/docs/linux/linux_guides/vi/#basics3

for a basic tutorial.

Seems like the major issue now is that you can't get a gui started. If that
is so, try
`telinit 5` as a first whack to see if you get lucky.

Failing that, `startkde`

The output from startkde should give you some indication of where the issue
is.

<snip>
>
> Oh yes, I realize that. Thought I knew what I was doing but screwed up
> anyway.
>
> Bob S.
>
> PS going to start a new thread for trying to make vi (vim) work for me.


HTH,

Mark

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