OK, Tony,<br><br>This time we will put into effect what Frode suggested.<br><br>In the Terminal, type (without quotation marks) "sudo nano /etc/fstab" press Enter and you will see a prompt for your password. After you have entered your password and pressed Enter you will see a screen with your fstab file.
<br><br>Scroll to the end of the line that says: /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 and press Enter to create the new line.<br>You scroll with your up/down/sideways arrow keys on your keyboard.<br><br>Then press Control+X to save, confirm (Y) and then exit by pressing Enter. Then type exit into the terminal screen to close it.
<br><br>Then reboot and keep your fingers crossed.<br><br>Cheers,<br>Andre<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 06/08/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Anthony J Brow</b> <<a href="mailto:tbrow@tpg.com.au">tbrow@tpg.com.au
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Andrew,-----thanks for persisting with me--- here goes:<br><br>oshua@joshua-desktop
:~$ cat /etc/fstab<br># /etc/fstab: static file system information.<br>#<br># <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass><br>proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
<br># /dev/sda2<br>UUID=e91203b7-e4dd-4648-a341-6a3a47b30c65 / ext3<br>defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1<br># /dev/sda1<br>UUID=82286B4D286B3F73 /media/sda1 ntfs<br>defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
<br># /dev/sda4<br>UUID=fa6315d7-9bd8-431b-aab8-179f9e875358 /media/sda4 ext3<br>defaults 0 2<br># /dev/sda5<br>UUID=53d74c43-ed51-4868-8c5f-dae61e042b49 none swap sw<br>0 0<br>/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
<br>/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0<br>0joshua@joshua-djoshua@joshua-desktop:~$<br><br>hope this makes sense to you<br><br><br>On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 14:19 +1000, Andre Mangan wrote:<br>> If you are quick enough you might be able to use the Pause button on
<br>> your keyboard just at the right time. But leave that for the moment,<br>> it may not be important.<br>><br>> Tony, could you post a copy of your fstab file please. I gather that<br>> you are a bit nervous of doing things in the terminal but I will give
<br>> you clear instructions on how to do this.<br>><br>> Open the Terminal and type "cat /etc/fstab" (without the quotation<br>> marks) and press Enter. That will give an indication as to how your<br>
> file system is configured and your drives.<br>><br>> Copy that output and paste it into the return email.<br>><br>><br>><br>> On 05/08/07, Anthony J Brow <<a href="mailto:tbrow@tpg.com.au">tbrow@tpg.com.au
</a>> wrote:<br>> Thanks Andrew<br>> Hope I 've done the right thing. I copied your suggested<br>> input, did the<br>> reboot and got a black screen, where a check of "/dev/sda2
<br>> and /dev<br>> sda4" was going on. At the end of '/dev/sda4' I saw the<br>> warning again<br>> "no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab'. But---- there
<br>> was some<br>> other stuff to read as well, but the check ended that quick,<br>> so that I<br>> could not read it, except a very quick glance of the "no<br>> final newline
<br>> at the end of /etc/fstab" line. Is there a way to keep that<br>> info on the<br>> screen so it can be read properly ?<br>><br>> On Sun, 2007-08-05 at 09:10 +1000, Andre Mangan wrote:
<br>> > Sorry, I forgot to add that you need to reboot after that<br>> command.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On 05/08/07, Andre Mangan <<a href="mailto:andremangan@gmail.com">
andremangan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > Tony, could you try to run the diskcheck programme<br>> by typing<br>> > "sudo touch /forcefsck" into the Terminal (without
<br>> the<br>> > quotation marks.<br>> ><br>> > Cheers,<br>> > Andre<br>> ><br>> ><br>> >
<br>> ><br>> > On 03/08/07, Anthony J Brow <<a href="mailto:tbrow@tpg.com.au">tbrow@tpg.com.au</a> ><br>> wrote:<br>> > Hi Everyone,<br>> >
<br>> > Your expertise will be really<br>> appreciated<br>> > here. When installing<br>> > Skype, I<br>> > was testing the sound as there was
<br>> no sound.<br>> > Just could not get<br>> > it<br>> > work.Trying sound settings,is where<br>> my
<br>> > troubles started. Lost<br>> > ALL sound.<br>> > Then trying to get an email address<br>> from the
<br>> > 'evolution' address<br>> > book,<br>> > the system froze, I had to<br>> reboot.Tried<br>
> > again , same result.<br>> > Tried a<br>> > label/business card program and it<br>> froze. I<br>> > decided to try the
<br>> > 'generic<br>> > recovery mode'. There was an answer<br>> towards<br>> > the end:<br>> >
<br>> > * Mounting local file systems*<br>> > (mntent): Warning ! No final newline<br>> at the<br>> > end of /etc/fstab/
<br>> ><br>> > well, I looked it up in google, but<br>> the<br>> > answers made no sense to<br>> > this
<br>> > nooby, seeing some expected to go to<br>> the '<br>> > root' area. I have<br>> > seen<br>
> > warnings NOT to fiddle with<br>> that. So where do<br>> > I go from here ?<br>> > I don't wanna loose my pictures or
<br>> email<br>> > addresses, by a total<br>> > re-install from the Feisty Cd.<br>> ><br>> > thanks in advance
<br>> > --<br>> > Anthony J Brow <<a href="mailto:tbrow@tpg.com.au">tbrow@tpg.com.au</a>><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >
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<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > --<br>> > <a href="mailto:andremangan@gmail.com">andremangan@gmail.com</a><br>> ><br>> ><br>> >
<br>> > --<br>> > <a href="mailto:andremangan@gmail.com">andremangan@gmail.com</a><br>> --<br>> Anthony J Brow <<a href="mailto:tbrow@tpg.com.au">tbrow@tpg.com.au</a>>
<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> --<br>> <a href="mailto:andremangan@gmail.com">andremangan@gmail.com</a><br>--<br>Anthony J Brow <<a href="mailto:tbrow@tpg.com.au">tbrow@tpg.com.au</a>><br><br></blockquote>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="mailto:andremangan@gmail.com">andremangan@gmail.com</a>