I always knew that Linux (and *nix) in general was rather finicky when it comes to the disk cache, but I never realized just how finicky it can be until last night. To make a long story short, I was attempting to plug in an audio cable into the back of one of the computers when my knee accidentally bumped the power switch on the Linux box. Oops! I got everything situated, powered on the Linux box and stared in disbelief at the disaster that struck... USB module not found... Sound Blaster PCI module not found... eth0 init failed. No biggie, I'll just dig out the appropriate modules and reinstall them from CD... /dev/cdrom has invalid major or minor number. Oops. I dig out the floppy... /dev/fd0 not found. Uh oh! ls -l /dev/f* shows no files. Grrr! ls -l /dev/e* shows no files. Grrr! ls -l /dev/* shows only the hdd and tty files... most of which have invalid major or minor numbers. Oh sh*t! On the up side, I now have a completely fresh install of Redhat Linux 7.0. One thing I found rather interesting is that the Redhat installer automatically reinstalled everything by itself without asking me beyond selecting which desktop I wanted. Looks like it just picked up the installed packages list from the hard drive. _______________________________________________ techtalk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/techtalk
