problem installing Suse onto Dell notebook

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