First Install SuSE 7.1 PPC on PowerMac4400  / MOUNT ERROR

As a Linux newbie  (but  experienced Mac user) I wonder if there's anybody
who can give me some advice when installing SuSE Linux 7.1 PPC
on a PowerMac4400 ("Oldworld Mac"), standard system with 2 GB ATA HDD.

I did the following so far (following the manual), but keep getting stuck at the "installation preparations";
linuxrc / YaST  wants me to set a MOUNTPOINT, but it then keeps giving a MOUNT ERROR -message:
(see also : page 25 and 60 of manual)

> HDD (2051 MB) configured with Drive setup (v.9.0) to 4 partitions:

>    A/UX-Root  partition (1692 MB).
>    A/UX-Swap  partition (96 MB).
>    MacOS Extended partition (32 MB) for Linux Boot.
>    MacOS Extended partition (232 MB) + Mac OS 9.0 installed.


cq. linuxrc gives :

swap partition :    /dev/hda7     (98304 blocks).

"do not partition" (hard drives)  (allready did this: DriveSetUp OS 9 mac).


CREATING FILESYSTEMS shows :

hda6  1732608      4096    no          ext2           Apple_UNIX_SVR
hda8      32768                  no          hfs             Apple_HFS
hda9    236379                  no          hfs             Apple_HFS
hda10            5    2048      no          ext2           Apple_Free

Than I selected the hda6 to set the mountpoint  " / " (root) at the hda6 partition,

>>> BUT when I pressed enter to mount this, I got the following error message :

MOUNT ERROR
An error occurred mounting the filesystem of partition "/dev/hda8" to the directory "/mnt".
Here is the error message of the "mount" command: wrong fs type, bad option,
bad superblock on /dev/hda8, or too many mounted file systems.

I could choose "repeat again", which I did and the same message appeared again.
(I can only choose "abort" now)
I even re-partitioned my entire HDD with Drive SetUp and changed the order of the partitions, but I keep getting the same errors at this stage.

WHAT can I do now to try to install this Linux at my old mac ?

Thanks for any help ;-)

Carolus
carolus@mac.com