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