/home

[voidmain]

Does it stop there and not give you a login prompt?

[Doogee]

no i can get to login its just i get lots of errors, cant get into KDE, ermm ill try logging in as root.

ill post a message when im in.

[voidmain]

Yes, if your /home is not mounted you must log in as root. You should not have a problem doing this. We can fix it dude. It ain't as hard as you think.

[Doogee]

k im rooting. err i mean im logged on as root. what do i do now commander?

[voidmain]

Paste in a copy of your /etc/fstab so's I can look her over.

[Doogee]

Code: [Select]

Note: i took out the hda7 thing after the problems cosi though it would fix it. my logic i guess  

[voidmain]

Notice line 4 has a "su" instead of "supermount" (actually the line is screwed up, must have drug your mouse across it, copy line 4 from your earlier post in place of that one that is screwed), there's your first error. Your second problem is you need to create a "/home" directory, then add that "/home" line back into your /etc/fstab. Then mount it. Then look in /home and see what's there (paste in an "ls -l /home" after all that so's I can look it over).

P.S. The "/etc/fstab" is a critical file. You must be very careful when editing this file not to make typos. Check it over 2 or 3 times after making a change and before rebooting after making a change. As long as you don't reboot you can always fix it.

[ November 11, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Doogee]

u ripper, i did the fstab, fixed it up made the home directory, did a "mount /dev/hda7 /home"
i went into the home directory and there was, home, lol, but all is good cos inside /home/home there is /dan    now what do i do to fix up the /home/home business?

[voidmain]

# cd /home/home
# mv * ..
# cd ..
# rmdir home

Done!

[Doogee]

yes! now ill boot into my user account but actually reboot the computer and check it out, them im goin to bed its midnight in 20 mins and i got school tomorrow.

Thanks so much for your help!!!

[voidmain]

No problem. Midnight was 6 hours and 45 minutes ago here and I don't have school tomorrow.

In UNIX it will do exactly what you *tell* it to do, which may not be what you *want* it to do. So it is important that you don't make typos. You made two typos that I can tell that made this a much more difficult exercise than it should have been.

The important part is, do you understand everything that we did? If so good work. It's really not that hard. We just went over a few of the basic things here but are fairly common on all UNIX and UNIX like systems.