Install 9.3 -- could not mount /dev/hdaX to /mnt/ ...
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
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