Re: Re: [Nolug] CD-ROM problem

I find that it is booting from diskette up to the point of "Mounting local filesystems," which always fails, and that's what it hangs on "Enabling local filesystem quotas." Do I need to stick another hard disc in so I can get it working enough to make some changes? It tells me that /fstab has format errors in lines 5 and 10.
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From: Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>
Date: 2003/02/25 Tue PM 02:13:58 EST
To: NOLUG ML <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Subject: Re: [Nolug] CD-ROM problem

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 11:59, Scott Harney wrote:
> <jdtiede@bellsouth.net> writes:
>
> You don't edit /etc/mtab manually. You need a rescue disk at this point.

And fortunately, your RH80 disk #1 should act as one.

As an aside, maybe "rm /etc/mtab~" will halp. That's one thing I would
immediately do.

> > When I was trying to do an update of RH 8.0 in hopes of finding a
> > missing file (subject of a separate message) the system hung and I had
> > to reset. At that point it stopped recognizing cdrom. I found a line
> > deleted in /etc/fstab, so added:
> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 per one
> > of the Linux books I have. That didn't help so I added to /etc/mtab:
> > /dev/cdrom / iso9660 ro 0 0 as a best guess going by the other
> > entires in mtab.
> > After that, clicking on the CD/DVD-ROM icon displays the contects
> > of the CD, but I can't remove the CD. When I click on Disk Management,
> > CD isn't even displayed.
> > When I shut down to reboot, I get a message "Cannot create
> > /etc/mtab~. Perhaps there is a stale lock file." On reboot, "mount
> > point 0 does not exist" appears. Is this normal? After that, the
> > system hangs on "Enabling local filesystem quotas." I am now limited
> > to using my W2K machine.

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