SuSE 8.0 from HD, problem with mount
 

Greetings!

I downloaded the SuSE 8.0 files from the net in order to install Linux from my local hard disk. The source drive is /dev/hda5 and the target drive on which i want to install Linux is /dev/hdb1. Now I ran into the following problem:

After i complete the installation settings, Yast2 tries to start the copy process but aborts with the message that the source drive could not be mounted to /tmp/mnt because it is already mounted to /mounts/extra. I have the option to 'skip' but this cancels the entire installation. Unmounting /dev/hda5 is not possible since the drive is busy. I tried making a symbolic link of /mounts/extra to /tmp/mnt but it won't help.

It seems to me that this problem must have been obvious to the people who coded the installation routines, so there must be a simple way to work around it, but i have yet to find one. Isn't it possible to tell Yast2 to just use the mount point of the source drive that is already in use since I can access the suse tree without a problem but Yast2 simply continues to try and mount the drive elsewhere?

Any suggestions on this would be greatly appreciated!

Is /dev/hda5 being mounted on /mounts/extra by SuSE or by you?
/mounts/extra does not sound like a name that SuSE would use.
If you are doing the mount in /etc/fstab then take it out.

Thx for the reply!

It is indeed being mounted by the installation program. Though i can't seem to guess the reason for this as most of the installation system (if not all of it) is on ramdisks. However unmounting will not work as the drive is busy. I tried to remove all the links to /dev/hda5 in order to be able to unmount it but at some point the whole file system tree disappears. So much for ramdisk. =)

You could mount /dev/hd5 on /tmp/mnt before you start the install and maybe that would cause SuSE to not decide to mount it on /mounts/extra.