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From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 11:44
Subject: Re: X Windom System will not start
> Hoyt Bailey wrote:
>
> >Sounds like a plan. I'll try and I believe that ext3 is already
installed.
> >Hoyt
> >
>
>
> Look in /etc/fstab at your various mount points. If any of them say
> "ext3", those partitions are (presumably, if you get no errors) in ext3
> format and are being mounted as such. If they say "ext2", the partitions
> _may_ be in ext3 format (but probably not, if you didn't convert them)
> but are being mounted as ext2 (a perfectly acceptable situation).
>
> To convert a partition from ext2 to ext3, you need to do two things:
> 1) run "tune2fs -j /dev/hd[whatever partition]. For example, if the
> partition is /dev/hdc2, you'd run "tune2fs -j /dev/hdc2". The conversion
> takes anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes depending on the size
> of the partition.
>
> 2) instruct the system to henceforth mount the partition as ext3. Do
> this by changing the "ext2" in /etc/fstab to "ext3", for each partition
> that you've converted. If you forget this step, you won't hurt anything;
> the partitions will still be mounted as ext2, but you won't have the
> advantage of the journaling that ext3 gives you.
>
> Repeat for each partition you want to convert. Then you'll either need
> to reboot to remount the partitions, or better yet, remount them manually:
> mount /dev/hd[whatever] -o remount
> should do it.
>
> --
> Kent
>
Last First /etc/fstab
/dev/hda3 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0
1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0
0
Additional proc entrys.
I dont know about that errors statement is the system saying <there are
errors> or <if there are errors>.
Result of dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree8
Did not go well, I believe. The card that showed up was eth0 and the next
panel wanted options for it. Since I did not have any idea what I should
put in I exited the program now I cant get back to that spot the first panel
says that if I want to do a manual configuration I will have to delete the
file or move it. If I delete the file will it be rebuilt or will I have to
reinstall? Either is no problem now.
Next XF86Config-4
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "vesa"
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
EndSection
I know I selected vesa it was the only option that I had ever seen
before(Not a good reason). So I looked at the man page and decided that
probable that was the wrong choice. I have downloaded the nVIDIA nForce
Linux Driver in Tarball form. I hope for better performance from it. Is
there a Install Driver HOW-TO?
I also have the Debian Doc Creating Custom Kernals, but I'm not ready for
that yet but I can see it coming.
Please make suggestions now! Monday may be rough.
Hoyt
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