[Leaplist] Serious computer trouble here

[William Ferguson]

Thanks very much, Tom.

The machine is giving me trouble recognizing my root password.
But I'll work on it.

Please permit me to ask this:

Two days before my problem began, I backed up all the data on the now
"crippled" computer to an external hard drive.

What would happen if I did a NEW Install of Fedora 12. (The "crippled"
machine runs Fedora 11.)

I would expect to lose all the data on the smaller hard drive which
was functioning just fine
prior to installing the new second hard drive.

If I did a fresh  install of Fedora 12 would the installation program recognize
 the two hard drives and permit me to install partitions on both of them,
---curing my present problem?

???

William

William



On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Tom Foster <tf at linuxceptional.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:17:36AM -0500, William Ferguson wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how to use text editors.
>> I don't know how to manipulate /etc/fstab.
>>
>
> $ sudo mcedit /etc/fstab
>
> find the offending line and put a # in front of it.
>
> hit f2 to save and f10 to exit.
>
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