The 03.06.25 at 06:33, lists1 wrote:
installation media, which I gave to someone else (we're on a tight budget and splitting the cost of the professional disks), so I couldn't make the rescue floppy again. After checking the logs recently, I was getting more errors:
You should have copied, at least, the 1st CD, for the rescue system.
/etc doesn't appear in the list of directories under / .
From a rescue system (I think yo said you have SuSE 7.3 CD available) you can use fdisk to see all the existing partitions. Then, manually mount each one on /mnt, check what they are, what type, etc), and see if any one appears to be /etc - no, that can not be. I don't think "/etc" can be a separate partition, because no partition can be mounted without reading /etc/fstab first.
Any way, check them: it's the way to discover what fstab should have. Run reiserfsck something to check and repair filesystem, I think you said you have a reiser root filesytem. If not, fsck whatever - from a rescue system, even from another SuSE version.
I have looked up solutions for a missing partition table, and rebuilding fstab. I have a suse 7.3 desktop that I can look at as an example for fstab, but what do I do when the entire /etc directory is gone?
Rebuild from backup ;-)
stopped the backup right where it ran into the problem. I don't have the space anymore to backup the data elsewhere. And since I never was able to get the cd burner working, I can't backup to multiple cds (which was the
Too bad. I would try to free a relatively small partition, install SuSE on it, from scratch, and attach to it the needed data partitions from the old install, which would be deleted on the end. I wouldn't like to be on your skin, though :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson