I saw the announcement for Mandrake 7.1b, so I thought I'd give it a shot. The installer looks quite nice, but I when I get to the point where it needs to format and mount the root partition, I get the error: mount failed: no such device. Hmmm... ok. I tried creating the partitions other ways. Through NT, which I didn't have high hopes for, and I still got the error. I installed debian, using the previously created partition. It worked fine. I tried installing on a different system, same error as on the first system. So I tried the first system again. Same error, so I dropped to shell. mount /dev/hda4 /mnt - no problem. Mounted it fine, I can see the partition. the lost_found and mnt directories are there, presumably created during the format. (Mandrake's format. Wiping out the debian install) so I umount and try mount /dev/hda4 /. I get the same error I get if I click on the Mount button from within the graphical fdisk-like program. " mount failed: No such file or directory at /usr/bin/perl-install/fs.pm line 208" Any ideas? I haven't checked out that perl script yet (a quick search didn't reveal any editors on the mounted install partitions). Anyone else run into this problem? Robert Shields
