Civilme had mentioned some timing issues with Maxtor
and Western Digital hard drives. I'm no expert, but
it may be worth checking out his messages from within
the last two weeks to find out more. It may be
relevant to your situation. I don't know.
--- chengyu sun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to update my MDK 7.2 setup to 8.0 and
> encountered some problems during the installation.
> Here's what happened:
>
> a) Downloaded both 8.0-inst and 8.0-ext and burned
> them on CDs.
>
> b) Booted with the 8.0-inst CD and got into the
> GUI installation interface. All my hardware seemed
> to be recognized correctly during the boot process.
>
> c) Selected the "Expert/Update" option.
>
> d) Went through the first few steps (language,
> keyboard, mouse etc.), but in the "Format
> Partitions"
> step I kept getting "Cannot mount device" error.
> It didn't say which device it couldn't mount (the
> down side of GUI installation, I guess). This step
> could not be skipped and the only way to quit the
> installation is to press the reset button.
>
> And here's my configuration:
>
> Hardware:
> . Abit BP6
> . a Maxtor 20G ATA66 hard drive on IDE0
> (ATA33 interface)
> . a DVD drive and a CDR on IDE1
> . Promise ATA100 PCI card
> . a IBM 30G ATA100 hard drive connected to the
> Promise card
>
> Software:
> . Win2k and Mandrake 7.2 with kernel 2.4.3
> . both hard drives are split half-half between
> Windows and Linux
> . The linux partitions are
> - The Maxtor disk: /, /home, swap
> - The IBM disk: /mnt/ibm, /usr/local
>
> Any ideas on what could have gone wrong? With
> so many exciting new features in 8.0 it's really
> pretty frustrating that I couldn't even get it
> installed.
>
> Thanks a lot,
>
> - Steve
>
>
>
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