Joe Sloan wrote:
regus_patoff@razzolink.com wrote:
With help from others I am now able to get openSuSE to recognize all of my drives; however, When I click on show all drives and indicate my root partition the installation program doesn't recognize the file system for any of the drives. All of the drives, except for swap, are EXT3. I have tried telling the install program my file system is : EXT3, EXT3-fs, ext3-fs, ext3, and (native linux) EXT3. none of which work.
The above doesn't sound like any suse installer I've seen.
When you say "the installation program doesn't recognize the file system for any of them", are these all existing file systems that you are trying to preserve, and keep from being touched by the installer? If so, how were these file systems created?
Your statement about telling the installer what file systems you have doesn't make any sense. The installer has a menu of file systems, ext3 is one of those menu items, and only one. Can you explain what you meant when you listed the various spellings and capitalizations of ext3 above?
Joe
I will use bold type for program reponse. I will list step by step what I do and what happens I have a disk with openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386 on it. When I boot it I get the green splash screen, then I get the gray screen: *Installation screen* *initializing* *language:* english us click next *media check* media checks ok click next check yes to agree to lic. agreement click next *system probe installation mode check update* click next *downloading build repository, etc. intializing package manager evaluating root partition select for update* empty box check show all partitions select openSUSE 10.2 /dev/hdc3 i386 linux native (ext3) / for updating click next Box with the following message: *The partition /dev/hda4 could not be mounted mount: you must specify filesystem type if you are sure that the partition is not needed by the installation click on continue [Continue] [Specify file sytem type] [cancel] * click specify another box * Mount Options * *mount point : /boot device : /dev/hda4 file system (empty for autodetection) * if I leave the file system box empty it returns to the prior box that states the partition could not be mounted, etc. The various spelling; i.e. EXT3, ext3, etc. are examples of what I tried in the file sytem box in the Mount Options box. Hope this clarifies what I said previously Thanks again Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org