[Herts] Malcolm, did you write up your Grub presentation notes ?

[Malcolm Smith]

On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 09:46:52PM +0000, local.linux at jumpstation.co.uk wrote:
> Hi Malcolm,
> 
> I wondered if you wrote up your GRUB presentation notes.

Yes, and I bet you'd also like me to be able to find them too... :)
Sadly they elude me tonight, so I won't bore you with them just yet.


> Or if anyone can remember what the command was to identify an attached but not 
> mounted file system.
> I just need to check if a drive is NTFS before I mount it now an then.

One of these might be what you seek:
(I seem to remember you expressing wonderment at the second one :)

# fdisk -l
# blkid /dev/sda7
# vol_id /dev/sda7   # not all distros have this command IIUC

See also this helpful directory:
# ls -l /dev/disk/by-*


> Plus I really want to create a machine that boots live CD ISOs.

BTW, Sidux has now been reborn minus legal issues as:

http://aptosid.com/


Cheers
-- 
Malcolm
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