Have a look at /dev and see if the link hda2 exists. If not then try this: mount /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 /newroot/mnt/iso
That should work if /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 exists and do exactly the same thing. On 21 Feb 2003 12:38:50 -0800 George Mathews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What lies ahead is not for the faint of heart. > My laptop has no built in disck drives except a hard drive. I have read > how to install linux on it. > > I need one of two things to work in order to insatll gentoo. They are > the ability to use a usb cdrom to install or the ability to mount a vfat > partition that has the iso image on it like with redhats install. > > What happens when I try to install is the gentoo installer boots and > then gets to the part later where it tries to mount the cdrom and fails. > It then drops me into a shell and I try this: > mkdir /newroot/mnt/iso > mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /newroot/mnt/iso > It fails here saying no such device. The thing is that in proc and such > it says that the partion exists > I would then mount the gentoo iso image and continue the install. > > Any help would be appriciated. > One idea I was thinking of was installing redhat and then making an > exxt2 partition, putting the iso on that and trying to mount that and > then the iso. > -- > Thank You, > George Mathews > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list