My intarweb searches haven't yielded much on this one. Maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.

After an exceedingly long time booting from floppy, I can get to the YaST installer. Everything seems fine. Using Partition Magic 8.0, I have already made three partitions, mount points of which will be:

/boot (about 35MB) /dev/hda6
SWAP (about 750MB) /dev/hda7
/ (about 4GB) /dev/hda5

They are all part of a logical drive, but I know that linux flavors these days are perfectly capable of booting from a logical drive.

When I go to install, YaST either formats the drives (if I told it to) or leaves them alone. Whenever it tries to mount root:

"could not mount /dev/hda5 to /mnt/. you can continue if you know what you're doing..."

I have tried several different partitions on the drive (hda6, hda7, hda8) and also tried preformatting to EXT3. I have also asked YaST to format to Reiser or EXT3. None of these options work. I have the option to continue, abort, retry. Retry doesn't work (does it ever?), and continue will start copying files but always bombs out about 2 minutes into copying (same rpm every time).

I tried a third primary partition (there are two before the logical one) but YaST doesn't even see it.

So what's going on?

TIA

shock_ez

I am not sure how the floppy installer works (automatic or semi-automatic), but I have heard that the modules for the root filesystem had to be loaded manually. I can understand that you would prefer not to boot from the floppies again, but I would give it a try and run a 'Manual Installation' with loading the filesystem driver explicitly (reiserfs is the SUSE default).

EDIT: YaST works better on empty space. If the above does not work, you should try to delete your partitions and let YaST do the job.

somehow the manual installation can't read my floppy right (even though it boots from it...) and can't load modules enough to get the reiserFS module installed. I left open space for YaST and the same problem happened. Short of formatting my entire hard drive (I have windows partitions on the first two primary partitions, can't delete them) I'm at a loss for what to do about this problem. I guess for now I'll go back to 9.2 and maybe try again later when I have more time to waste...

Thanks!

shock_ez