Joe Sloan wrote:

regus_patoff@razzolink.com wrote:

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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

David Bolt wrote:

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, wrote:-

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*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

My guess is that you have separate partitions, and /var is on one of those partitions. If so, you've probably fallen foul of bug #330705, to which a workaround is available here:

<URL:http://en.opensuse.org/How_To_Upgrade_System_with_Separate_/var_Partition>

Regards, David Bolt

Thanks Dave; I already used your information about the work around, that is how I got to the mount options box. I can not get past that to mount the various partitions. Thanks again from Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R. wrote:

Can you see the partitions at all?

Perhaps you can try "fdisk -l" on one of the text consoles, and check what is find-able.

(during install, you have perhaps two text consoles in which you can type some commands. They are accessable by typing ctrl-alt-f1..f10. Some of them are logs, some text console, one graphical).

I don't know if the command "file -s" is available there, to test the device nodes.

When I check show all partitions box, all of the partitions are visible. "/", var, usr, home, swap, opt, & boot are on separate partition and in some cases different drives. They are all formated with EXT3, except swap of course. I will try your suggestions and report back. Thanks for your help Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Carlos E. R. wrote:

The Wednesday 2007-11-28 at 21:57 -0800, regus_patoff@razzolink.com wrote:

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I will use bold type for program reponse. Just a side note: please remember the list is plain text only: your text formatting got lost. Surprisingly, no :-) I just started seeing last month that Thunderbird now displays what is between two stars on one line in bold :-)

Are you an accountant, Carlos, or a virgin ;?) Kind regards Philippe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Randall R Schulz wrote:

Rudeness is hardly called for. Carlos is a respected member of this forum. If that how it is understood then i apologize. I meant and signalled it as a joke. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

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I will use bold type for program reponse.

Just a side note: please remember the list is plain text only: your text formatting got lost.

Surprisingly, no :-) I just started seeing last month that Thunderbird now displays what is between two stars on one line in bold :-)

That is entirely separate from HTML mail. Try, as well, surrounding a portion of text with underscores. It will be rendered by Thunderbird as underlined. Similarly, surrounding some text with slashes will cause Thunderbird to render it as italic.

It doesn't work on Pine. I made the comment simply because it was difficult for me to read the text, and thought it was sent in html. I didn't notice what the asterisks were for. I have used them, too, but never so profussely.

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Are you an accountant, Carlos, or a virgin ;?)

Rudeness is hardly called for. Carlos is a respected member of this forum.

Thanks, Randall. I certainly don't understand the sentence in question, so I refrained from commenting on it, not knowing the intention. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHUNgytTMYHG2NR9URArsqAKCDl81MD6Zr7zuvjg9TekRoZ4ARUACfY+aN wPXqV9FopotXpFn8LIgY/oM= =dWIK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-11-28 at 21:57 -0800, regus_patoff@razzolink.com wrote:

I will list step by step what I do and what happens

I read it again and I have a doubt. ...

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

So, I assume the root partition is /dev/hdc3.

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

However, the message refers to /dev/hda4. What is /dev/hda4? I got a similar message for my encrypted partition, which is data and not needed by the system (for install, anyway), so I told it to ignore and go ahead. I reactivated it later. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHUYt0tTMYHG2NR9URAjuBAJ9Z5taaabMJC2rQNTsprj39WbKhIwCfWuBF Q0IKZGiIYIJr5qv0eazox3s= =4FmI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org