HELP, please. This is my first installation experience of linux, after years as a Windows + UNIX user. I am using the SuSE 8.2 Professional CD installation, having just bought it on Saturday. I am making a commitment to move away from Windows after a year of virus scares and systems crashing frequently. It sounds like Linux has come a long way in recent years on the desktop and availablility of friendly apps. I'm really looking forward to getting it working. So I set out on a fresh start with Linux. I started the install using a floppy bootdisk that I downloaded, with a couple of module disks until the CD takes over. (This PC won't boot from CD) Using YaST, I deleted the partitions used by Windows and manually created partitions to load SuSE. But it doesn't seem to matter if I create the partitions or take what is suggested, after formatting the partitions of the hard disk, the installation comes to a halt when YaST tries to mount the partitions. I keep getting stuck at this point :-(( and cant seem to get round it. Please help. I get a pop up error message saying YaST2 Could not mount partition /dev/sda4 to /mnt/. Continue if you know what you are doing, but it would be safer to reboot and try again. If I click continue it pops up a similar message for the next partition. If I click the other buttons it hangs. I'm quite confused about what's going wrong. Some discussions I read suggest problems with the partitioning information. Others hint at bugs in the YaST utility. If anyone could point me in the right direction I'd be very greatefull. I had manually created the following partitions using the partition features for YaST All are primary partitions. /dev/sda1 in format EXT2 23.5Mb for /boot /dev/sda2 in format swap 258.8Mb for swap The rest in format reiserfs for / root, which becomes /dev/sda4 Here is some more information from other screens, and the specification of the PC is at the bottom. I tried searching the web and the SuSE Support Database, but even after trying the following solutions I can't get round this problem. SDB Manual Partitioning with YaST2 http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_y2_partition.html SDB Partitioning for SuSE Linux http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thallma_partition.html These discussions seem to show the same symptom, but don't show a solution :- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jul/2625.html http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2002-Jun/3234.html Just before launching the install I swtiched the display When I examine screen Ctrl + Alt + F2 and used a command to confirm the contents of the partition table # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 4294 MB, 429467293 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders Units = of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 3 24066 83 Linux /dev/sda2 4 36 265072+ 82 Linux /dev/sda3 37 62 208845 83 Linux /dev/sda4 63 522 3694950 83 Linux After seeing the error message I tried to use this screen to manually mount the partition with this command # mount -v /dev/sda4 / mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for I will try type reiserfs (Which is fine because that is what I specified when creating the partition ) When I examine screen Ctrl + Alt + F3 I see good progress until the last few lines which are as follows... Setting up localhost.....done going for automatic install mount: /var/adm/mount/boot/root: we need a loop device mount: using /dev/loop0 rmmod usb-storage starting /mounts/instsys/sbin/inst_setup yast When I examine screen Ctrl + Alt + F4 I see steady progress then a full screen of data as the mounting begins. Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB #1 Wed Apr 16 14:50:03 UTC 2003 Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: CPU: 0 Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Not tainted Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 and so on........ The last lines read.. Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: Modules: [(reiserfs:<c0c00060>:<c0c30f74>)] Oct 12 17:01:05 (none) kernel: Code: Bad EIP value. Thank you in advance for your help. I look forward to hearing from you. Cheers, William. Pentium P160 64 Mb memory Micron Electronics Motherboard PhoenixBIOS SCSI Adapter card AHA-2940 ULTRA/ULTRA W Hard disk CONNER CFP4207SV 4.28Gb --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger