Problem installing Suse 8.0

nblowfield · 07-26-2002, 06:49 AM

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

Config · 07-26-2002, 07:11 AM

Well, It might be helpful to know what partitions you have and where you mount them to. May be, it cannot mount since / is not mounted yet. Or another version: /mnt/something is mounted, so it cannot mount on /mnt/
Good luck

nblowfield · 07-26-2002, 07:18 AM

Hi

The hard drive is entirely blank

I believe YAST attempts to create a 500mb swap partition, and 1 other that fills the remainder of the drive

I'm sorry if this doesnt help further, but obviously I'm a ......

thanks for any further help

Config · 07-26-2002, 07:38 AM

The partition /dev/hda2, is going to fill the remainder of your HD, right? SuSE sais, it wants to mount it to /mnt, but you certainly don't want that. This directory is used mainly for temporary filesystems. What you should do now:
Go to the partition setup and change the mount point of /dev/hda2 from /mnt to /
Hope it helps

Mik · 07-26-2002, 09:02 AM

Well I'm not sure exactly how the installer works but I assume it should be mounting it to /mnt because it's got to mount it somewhere on the install filesystem so it can start copying files to it.
But anyways did you format the partitions before you tried to mount them?

nblowfield · 07-26-2002, 09:10 AM

I'm not manually doing anything really, everything I've said about the partitions is what SUSE is telling me its doing via the report you get just prior to starting the main installation

I didnt format the partitions no, just had a blank HDD with no partitions, and I assume the SUSE installer is creating/formatting

jetblackz · 07-26-2002, 12:05 PM

I'm giving up SuSE cuz I can't figure out how to go online for the life of me. Did everything by the book.

That "report" shows you the detected and suggested install. You can change it, like partitioning, from the drop-down menu right below. You go in there and make sure SuSE doesn't destroy your XP. Create 10gig ext2 or ext3 or whatever for Linux. Don't know your RAM so I assume it's more than 128MB. No need for swap.