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/". 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 hda5: Win95 FAT32, installation source reside at "/installer/suse8", about 4 GB. hda6: ext2, this will be the "/home", about 3 GB. hda7: swap, about 512 MB. 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). 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)... :-((((( 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. -- GMX - Die Kommunikationsplattform im Internet. http://www.gmx.net