On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Stuart Burbridge wrote:

> It sounds like you are probably trying to mount your / directory on your CD
> drive.
> Your current hard drives will look like this in Linux
> c: = hda1
> e: = hdb1
> f: = hdb2
> g: = hdb3
> h: = hdb4

close but not quite, extended partitions start at hdX5
so if you have one primary partition it'll look like

e: hdb1
f: hdb5
g: hdb6
h  hdb7
 
> on 22:31 10/09/1999 -0700, Jerry,wrote
> >I have two hard drives.
> >One is C drive with W95.
> >Other is E F G H  8.4 Gig Maxtor with Windows NT installed on
> >one of the partitions.
> >I am having trouble installing mainly as  I dont know how to
> >make sure I install to right partition on second hard drive.
> >When I select hdc instead of hda1 and type " / " for mount point
> >I get an error message "illegal mount point "
> >I have 2047 megs free on three of the four partitions.
> >Any help appreciated.
> >JDW
> >
> >

Whatd drive d: windows doesn't skip letters 

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