How do I change my fstab file?

bulletbutter · n00b Joined: 28 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

I finished installing and rebooted. I used exactly what was on the Handbook. When it started loading it game me some error...fsck.ext3: not found no such directory. Through a quick search I found out that I need to alter my fstab file because instead of changing the defaults I just added what I was supposed to at the bottom of the ftab file. How do I get back in to change the fstab? I put in the liveCD and rebooted to it. Got into #liveCD gentoo but I can't get chroot. When I try chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash it says:

davascript · l33t Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 618 Location: Pennsylvania

you have to mount your drives first then chroot
1. mount /
2. mount boot
3. mkswap and activate
4. mount proc
5. chroot
6 ecit fstab

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:05 pm Post subject:

Hi.

@davascript
You don't need to create the swap again, you just need to use it - swapon /dev/???.
To edit a file you also don't need to chroot. The live-cd includes nano, so you can just edit it - nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/fstab.
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