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Hey, Anyway. I'm having some issues while installing Suse 9.2. I find these strange because Suse has ALWAYS been the easiest to install and configure.

I'll start at the begining. I had suse and decide I wanted to try Mandrake, Didn't really care for mandrake so I switched back to suse and XP, while trying to install Suse I keep running into errors with package media issues from the ftp server.

along with the problems of when I did get everything to come together when it was at the screen showing the delete partitions and format. I had selected new installation btw....

I get errors saying could not mount /dev/hda2 to mnt.

You can continue if you know what you are doing but it would be safer to abort and retry.....

So, after many of those... I have never seen this before while installing suse.

I have seen when I took a drive that I had installed Fedora 3 onto... It's like fedora does something to the drive geometry or something.

Anyway, I went ahead and just did a low level format to my drive and then last night I tried to re-install suse and the same thing.

Right now, I'm installing XP and then I'll connect to the FTP server and just do a network install again and see if it's happy with the formatting that XP does.

btw my hdd is a seagate 120 gb and totally free....

any ideas on what to do if I see it again about an hour when I try this again?

thatnks
Doug

post the O/P of

fdisk -l

regards

Right now I have XP installing and then I'll be installing Suse from a network drive. If I get that error again I will post that O/P for sure.

It's just going to be another 30 minutes or so.

Thanks for the reply...
talk with in a little bit.
Doug

ok, I just tried the suse network install and again I get the same error so now let me run fdisk -l

how about parameter format not found

fdisk /dev/hda

I loaded Mandrake and it loads just fine. I loaded it from Cd's.

Suse 9.2 cd will install just fine also.

But when I use a linux boot cd which is 9.1 and do the network install from
140.221.37.132
pub/suse/i386/9.2

But when I get to the screen where you make the choices about software. I can choose the software.

I click ok and then when the bar goes across it only makes it to 64% and then fails saying it could not mount /dev/hda2 to mnt

The only ting I can see that makes any difference is the boot cd? Does it have to be a 9.2?

Thanks
Doug