--- Niki Blowfield
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