Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Will Twomey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i guess this should be considered a "bad answer" from the system: # mount /dev/hda9/ /mnt/drive mount: /dev/hda9 is not a valid block device hinting towards a very damaged HD! What does dmesg

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Will Twomey
Open up a terminal, and type 'sudo su'. 'mkdir /mnt/drive' If you know where your hard drive is located, you can mount it now. 'mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/drive' (or whatever) Otherwise, just 'dmesg hd' and use 'fdisk -l /dev/hda' to find the drive with the partitions you want to mount. (where hda i

Debian testing problems with laptop cd-rom

2006-05-21 Thread Will Twomey
WARNING: ATAPI is disabled, device ignored. I've tried adding 'libata.atapi_enabled=1' in menu.lst after the kernel command, but that doesn't seem to work. Does anyone know what is wrong, and how I can fix it? :) Thanks! -Will Twomey

Mailman/postfix problem

2006-03-22 Thread Will Twomey
"daemon", or re-run configure, providing the command line option `--with-mail-gid=postfix'. Since I didn't compile these from source, how can I fix this problem? Why would apt have broken this? I've used the 'check_perms' script, and nothing is wrong with the permission