Help with installing SuSE9.1
 

"could not mount partition /dev/hda1 to mnt/boot"

appeared at the end of formating during installation of SuSE. Help this newb here plz. Thanks in advance

Check whether your harddisk is partitioned correctly. Choose the link "partitioning" (maybe it is named a little different, look for the link with the partitioning information below) in the installation setup. Your /dev/hda1 should be formatted with reiserFS and mounted on the mount-point /.
If you have bought the SuSE-Distro, registering and calling the SuSE Installation Suppport is always a good idea.

yea, had done it, but the msg of could not mount partition /dev/hda1 to /mnt still pops out. grrr...

could it be the filesystem that's damaged? help!!

Does your problem fit this?

i doubt so, but thanks anyways ;)
the YaST installation always halts at the formatting, prompting either that /dev/hdXX cannot be formatted or it cannot be mounted to the respective /mnt
Also, when i did run the system repair, it showed that all the partitions have invalid partition tables.

You can better diagnose your system than I can, but I though that was what the article addressed.
The partitioning tool parted, which YaST uses during the installation, may write an incorrect partition table.
Good Luck.

I´ve always partitioned my disk using fdisk (start a system from cd or the old linux on hd if you´ve got one). Then I started the SuSE installation and just used it for the formatting, it always worked without any problems. So maybe you should partition youtr harddisk in advance with fdisk (the linux-version never the windows/dos-programm).