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Niki Blowfield

26 Jul 2002 26 Jul '02

10:56

Dear All, Trying to install Suse onto a Dell Notebook Has a 20gb HDD, no existing partitions Installation gets past the point of telling me where its going to put everything, and then as its configuring the partitions,I get a "Could not mount partition /dev/hda2 to /mnt/" First this was happening with XP with a FAT32 partition residing on the first 10GB of the HDD, now I'm getting the same problem with nothing on the hard drive at all Any help appreciated Thanks Nik

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Charles Griffin

26 Jul 26 Jul

12:08

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--- Niki Blowfield wrote:

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Dear All,

Trying to install Suse onto a Dell Notebook

Has a 20gb HDD, no existing partitions

Installation gets past the point of telling me where its going to put everything, and then as its configuring the partitions,I get a "Could not mount partition /dev/hda2 to /mnt/"

First this was happening with XP with a FAT32 partition residing on the first 10GB of the HDD, now I'm getting the same problem with nothing on the hard drive at all

Any help appreciated

Thanks

Nik

Nik, I don't know the exact answer to your question, but I have SuSE on my Dell notebook and it works great. From what I've read, in fact, Dell is one of the best supported notebooks in Linux. Your problem may have something to do with the hidden s2d partition, either SuSE thinks it's there and you fdisk'd it away, or perhaps it is there and you're trying to mount it or something. (If you need it back you can use the great mks2d utility available on Dell's support page). Anyway, a couple of resources to aid you in your quest: http://www.linux-laptop.net/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/ The yahoo groups FAQ is excellent. Good luck! Regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

Gerhard den Hollander

12:19

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* Charles Griffin (Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 05:08:30AM -0700)

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Trying to install Suse onto a Dell Notebook Has a 20gb HDD, no existing partitions

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I don't know the exact answer to your question, but I have SuSE on my Dell notebook and it works great. From what I've read, in fact, Dell is one of the best supported notebooks in Linux.

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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-dell-laptops/ The yahoo groups FAQ is excellent.

except that http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq seems to be unreachable (http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq is where the yahoo! groups! Faq! resides). As for the problem, I've installed linux on a variety of Dell laptops and only once bumped into this problem. Since I had partitionmagic at hand, I manually made the partitions using partitionmagic and used that. if you do not have partition magic you can try sfdisk from the boot CD something like sfdisk /dev/hda 0,1, 1,1042,S 1043, (creates a 1 cylinder /dev/hda (as /boot) a 1024 cylinder swap and the rest oas 1 partition) But double check the sfdisk manpage before using it ;) Currently listening to: Nine Inch Nails - Still (Limited Edition Bonus C - And All That Could Have Been Gerhard, <@jasongeo.com> == The Acoustic Motorbiker == -- __O The trouble with reality, is that it's taken much too seriously =`\<, The only one who's good to me, is Santa Claus, a fantasy (=)/(=) Let's Celebrate This party's over, I'm going home

abarthel

12:31

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Le Vendredi 26 Juillet 2002 12:56, vous avez écrit :

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Dear All,

Trying to install Suse onto a Dell Notebook

Has a 20gb HDD, no existing partitions

Installation gets past the point of telling me where its going to put everything, and then as its configuring the partitions,I get a "Could not mount partition /dev/hda2 to /mnt/"

First this was happening with XP with a FAT32 partition residing on the first 10GB of the HDD, now I'm getting the same problem with nothing on the hard drive at all

Any help appreciated

Thanks

Nik

I don't understand. I suppose you use Yast2 on SuSE-8.0 You are at the beginning of installation, thus you have not any partition created yet and no directory on which to mount a device/partition. Why should you want to create a /mnt directory to mount on device/partition /dev/hda2 or is it a default setting that royally fails? I work generally with Yast1. If it is a default partitioning, I suppose you would have something like: /dev/hda1 /boot about 20Mb /dev/hda2 / The whole free disk space /dev/hda3 swap about 256Mb -- Alain Barthélemy

Charles Griffin

13:03

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You are at the beginning of installation, thus you have not any partition created yet and no directory on which to mount a device/partition. Why should you want to create a /mnt directory to mount on device/partition /dev/hda2 or is it a default setting that royally fails?

I suspect it's because his s2d partition resides on /dev/hda1, which from what I understand, is where it has to be if one chooses to use it. This is how I have mine set up. Yast2 detected the s2d partition at /dev/hda1 and thus began the SuSE installation at /dev/hda2. Also, the yahoo groups FAQ now appears to be working (just tried it): http://www.whacked.net/ldl/faq/ To the original poster: does fdisk show a s2d partition of approx. RAM + video RAM? Regards, Charles __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

jfweber＠eternal.net

28 Jul 28 Jul

02:29

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** Reply to message from Charles Griffin on Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:03:22 -0700 (PDT) **I suspect it's because his s2d partition resides on **/dev/hda1, which from what I understand, is where it **has to be if one chooses to use it. okay, colour me really stupid today ... what does the s2d partition do, is it for and any other variation of those questions I'm too dim to recall ( no cafine yet ,,, BIG PROBLEM for the cafine dependant <s>) j afterthought Yes! But that's our STRONGEST weak point!

Joe & Sesil Morris (NTM)

14:34

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jfweber@eternal.net wrote:

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okay, colour me really stupid today ... what does the s2d partition do, is it for and any other variation of those questions I'm too dim to recall ( no cafine yet ,,, BIG PROBLEM for the cafine dependant <s>)

That is the partition used for hibernation, i.e. suspend to disk. -- Joe & Sesil Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace God, I am what I am.

Ewan Leith

14:35

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s2d = suspend to disk dell laptops normally come with a small (<256mb) partition, which is used for suspending the laptop to disk. this makes the windows partition /dev/hda2 Ewan On Sun, 2002-07-28 at 03:29, jfweber@eternal.net wrote:

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** Reply to message from Charles Griffin on Fri, 26 Jul 2002 06:03:22 -0700 (PDT)

**I suspect it's because his s2d partition resides on **/dev/hda1, which from what I understand, is where it **has to be if one chooses to use it.

okay, colour me really stupid today ... what does the s2d partition do, is it for and any other variation of those questions I'm too dim to recall ( no cafine yet ,,, BIG PROBLEM for the cafine dependant <s>)

j

afterthought Yes! But that's our STRONGEST weak point!

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Niki Blowfield