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RE: editing the file fstab

nelz — Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:17 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 8:17 am

The default fstab is just a templete. As the handbook says, replace the device names and filesystem types with those you used when partitioning your drive at the start of the installation. Chanhe /dev/ROOT to whatever partition you installed Gentoo on. Your CD and DVD drives will be /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom1. CD and DVD drives are treated the same.

RE: editing the file fstab

niceguy — Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:39 am

Author: niceguy

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 3:39 am

well folks I think I have it figured out now. But still not sure about the dvd and cdrom part.

editing the file fstab

niceguy — Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:07 am

Author: niceguy

Posted: Sun Jul 03, 2005 1:07 am

Hi guys,
Am installing gentoo at the moment and with some help from the forum all has gone well.All thats left is to edit the fstab file and am almost there.
now according to the handbook the file should go something like this
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0

but my problem is that I have a file like this

/dev/Boot /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/swap none swap sw 0 0
/dev/ROOT / xfs noatime 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0

The thing is my hda3 is ext3
Is root the same as hda3? do I change xfs to ext3?
and I have both a cdrom and a dvd drive and am not too sure how to proceed!
Almost there but any help would be nice.