Re: [LUG] Knoppix and /etc/fstab

[Grant Sewell <dclug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:06:14 +0100
Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi
>
> One of the other users in paignton has just tried to boot knoppix 3.6 
> from the cd Image from the latest issue of linux magazine,  I make him a 
> cdrom from this image,
>
> AFAIK his system is running Windows XP,  he's just e-mailed me and said 
> that it boots fine but hangs when it tries to create /etc/fstab. 
>
> Any ideas,  If this is created on the hdd,  would this indicate an issue 
> with writing to the NTFS file system,  and would creating  a small dos 
> fat32 or fat16 partition solve the problem.
>
> A cd created with the same iso file works fine on my computer which is 
> running 98SE and Suse 9.1 dual boot,
>
> Thanks for any help, or pointers.
>
> Paul
>
> -- 

Is he trying to actually install Knoppix?  If not, then I wouldn't have thought it'd 
be a NTFS issue since a normal Knoppix boot creates all the necessary files in a RAM 
disk.

--
Grant

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