disable second hdd mount 2

[piti]

i've installed mandrake from a hhd, connected to the second chanel on the hdd controler into a hdd on the first chanel
then i removed the installation hdd and every time i boot i got errors about not existing drive, something like:
mounting other file systems - failed
and some errors about /dev/hdd5
when i leave the instalation disk connected everything is fine, no error
how to remove the second disk during init?
or how to make it to mount it only if it's present?

 

[bubak]

edit /etc/fstab
man fstab also helps

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Yes, the answer is in /etc/fstab. You can either remove the line referring to /dev/hdd5 completely or add the 'noauto' keyword to the options fields on that line to prevent it being automatically mounted. Something like this :

/dev/hdd5 /tmp ext2 noauto,user 0 0

(/tmp is just an example - it would be whatever mount point it was set-up as )

Rgds

 

[piti]

thanx guys