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Good day William,
On Monday 13 October 2003 4:32 am, William Wolfe wrote:
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)
Only "a couple"? Mu SUSE 8.2 installation disk set has 4 module disks: - USB - IDE/RAID/SCSI - Network - PCMCIA, File system, Old (Non ATAPI) CD-ROM, FireWire Did you download them from the proper SUSE 8.2 online repository? Make sure the bootdisks are actually for SUSE 8.2. They are also on the CDs together with some utility to put them on floppies.
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/.
I assume you have a SCSI based system. You don't mention anything about the hardware. It might be possible that the module needed for your system didn't get loaded or it isn't included in the initrd for booting the install kernel.
I do not think the SCSI disk would show up in the partition program if the SCSI driver modules are not loaded. Could the wrong module be loaded automatically? William, have you tried to start the install process by selecting manual installation, and then manually loading the proper SCSI card module? Best regards :o) Johnny :o)