Haha!! I seem to be running the whole gamut of potential istallation issues. I took the advice of one of the posts here and persevered. Eventually it worked. However, I'v run into a problem 'formatting and checking' (via Yast1) reiser-specified partitions. I get the message that the partition is'nt large enough (600MB aint large enough!!) or that the device does not exist. Reading some of the other posts, it seems the only way through this is to clear everything on the drive, format the whole disk to a single partition and then start partitioning again. So tonite, i'm gonna have to get *nasty* with my hard drive. (Does that sound slightly erotic?) :-) Thanks y'all. Clifford -----Original Message----- From: Sasa Janiska [mailto:sjaniska@inet.hr] Sent: 30 March 2001 19:24 To: Michael Hasenstein Cc: Clifford Okoro; 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: Re: [SLE] SuSE 7.1 Installation - RPM Error On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Michael Hasenstein wrote:

I saw that once. Problem was the target filesystem didn't exist at all, so yast was installing to nowhere basically. I forgot what _that_ problem was, but it was independent and I solved it. Go to the console (ALT+F2) and have a look at the target partition, if it's mounted, if there's space. Maybe partitioning didn't succeed and therefore all following steps failed, I think that was the problem I had.

I had the same problem with SuSE 7.1. when I tried to apply update on my system. I had a target system - ReiserFS, but Yast failed. Finally, I had to reformat my / partition and do fresh install. Nice that I have separate /home partition - it was less work. Sincerely, Sasa