On Friday 28 June 2002 07:17, Verdi March wrote:
On Friday 28 June 2002 00:01, Rubens Oliveira wrote:
No,
I'm trying to install from a HD partition (windows). You may be right about a flawed partition setup...any suggestions?
You're right Leen, that the logical partition should start from hda5. Anyway, today I tried to choose "Safe installation", still no hope. I still got the message "could not mount hda2 to "/mnt/".
Well, there's an 8 GB partition in front of it. So huge that I silently wonder if that could be the cause... but I'm no expert. I'll try later if I can find something on this.
Then I tried to alter my partition setting (note: I 'repartition' using partition magic 7, similar with what I did with my laptop when I installed 7.2 successfully) to: hda1: 1st primary, NTFS, 8 GB. hda2: 2nd primary, ext2, about 8 MB, this will be the "/boot". hda3: Win95 Extended (LBA), about 10 GB. hda4: ext2, this will be the "/", about 3 GB
Again? hda4 -> hda5 ;-P
hda5: Win95 FAT32, installation source reside at "/installer/suse8", about 4 GB. +1 hda6: ext2, this will be the "/home", about 3 GB. +1 hda7: swap, about 512 MB. +1
Within YaST, I reformat hda2, hda4, hda6 with ext2 and hda7 with swap. The format went smoothly, and with this setting, I didn't get the error message anymore. BUT, when proceeding to the next screen (I think it supposes to be package installation, because I can see several empty GUI panel), YaST return to the first screen (the textmode screen, with options such as "power off", "boot/exit", "start install", etc).
Any error message on <Alt>-<F1..F12>? That is strange behaviour. Bug? Broken package? What I always do after downloading a source tree (8.0) is find every MD5SUMS file, and check the files in the containing directory with md5sum -c MD5SUMS. Last time I had to re-download 2 packages. Are you sure that your source tree is healthy? And that you downloaded everything below i386/8.0/ (except the sources in zq1)?
Leen's part:
But the cause of the mounting problem is /windows/D.
Retry the installation, but in the partitioner do not add /windows/D to t
I have make sure that the NTFS and the FAT32 are not mounted. But still I couldn't install.
Anyway, I'm thinking to give up installing SuSE8 on this PC. I dunno if I need to use ftp mode (using the laptop as ftp source)... :-(((((
This is disappointing. I realy believed you would succeed this time :-}.
Regards, Verdi
ps. btw, I always chose to install LILO at hda2 (primary) and activate it at the next booting. I don't know if this is the culprit, but I just don't want to install LILO at MBR, too risky.
Well, I trust LILO better than Windows, but out of convenience I've installed grub on the MBR to boot winXP (very rare ;-) or SuSE 7.3/8.0. It's convenient because I don't have to run LILO every time I install a new kernel or change lilo.conf. Grub doesn't care, as long as the files it needs are in the directory where it expects them. Here's my partition setup. Dou you have the same partition Id's for Win96 Ext. (0FH) and NTFS (07H)? According to cfdisk, FAT32=0BH, FAT32 (LBA)=0CH. Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3649 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 124 995998+ 6 FAT16 /dev/hda2 125 3649 28314562+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/hda5 125 151 216846 83 Linux /boot /dev/hda6 152 228 618471 82 Linux swap /dev/hda7 229 397 1357461 83 Linux /home /dev/hda8 398 789 3148708+ 83 Linux / (8.0) /dev/hda9 790 1181 3148708+ 83 Linux / (7.3) /dev/hda10 1182 1573 3148708+ 83 Linux /dev/hda11 1574 2172 4811436 83 Linux /dev/hda12 2173 2303 1052226 83 Linux /dev/hda13 2304 2629 2618563+ 7 HPFS/NTFS NTFS /dev/hda14 2630 2942 2514141 83 Linux /dev/hda15 2943 3393 3622626 83 Linux /dev/hda16 3394 3649 2056288+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 16676 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdd1 1 16676 8404703+ 83 Linux Regards, Leen