OPSE, original reply only sent to Brett.
On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:21 +0100, Brett Parker wrote:
We are not being wreckless, we are going very slow and explaining the steps.
quino: Type cp /etc/fstab . wild: cp: missing destination file
I think at that point you should have stopped and asked yourself if it was wise to carry on. I know what my answer would have been.
Maybe when you loose the "I'm a teenager, I know everything" attitude you will learn to expect things to go wrong and take a more cautious approach to things like this.
Sorry, but just out of interest, how did *you* first encounter fstab?
Probably about 20 years ago when I was managing a lab full of Sun 3/60s, some Whitechapple MG1s and a Vax 11/730 and 11/750 running 4.3 BSD. ;-)
As long as you do not remove random lines from it, it's fairly damned safe to edit.
You think ?
If you don't know what's safe and not safe to remove, don't remove things. Adding an extra line for mounting a partition read only is not rocket science. We are, as we said in channel, going through *very* slowly and checking and double checking before anything anyways.
Also, as wildfire_cs had already said, he's got *several* ubuntu live cds laying about, so if all else fails, we can repair it from there.
And you're sure they will have net access when they need to ask you how to fix it ?
Oh, and while I've been typing this response to your irrational post...
Sorry, but I don't think I'm the irrational one here....
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22:16 <+quinophex> wildfire_cs: you don't have any important data in your ubuntu install do you? 22:16 < wildfire_cs> nope havent beena able to get at important dat yet thats wat im tryin to do
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It's a *clean* ubuntu install that he'd *only* just installed before connecting to IRC. We've done *FAR* scarier things over IRC... *waves to Jenny* - like compiling kernel modules for wifi cards...
I understand that at the moment you're probably a bit on edge due to the looming job interview.
WHAT has that got to do with it ?
I've no problem with people going "it's all doomed", but it's a little much when you're doing that and not listening to anyone else, and haven't bothered to ask the major questions that you outlined here.
And Neither had you though to ask about important data until AFTER I had gone. I wonder if it would have crossed your collective brain cell at all if I hadn't posted this to the list ?
Peter O