Re: [newbie] Mount Point
On Thursday 07 November 2002 11:05 pm, you wrote: On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:00:28 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 November 2002 08:15 am, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:58, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello Folks. Wanting more space, and having screwed something up sufficently to warrant a reload, I decided to repartition my harddrive. It all went well, Except. I had a storage drive that I created at /storage. When I repartitioned, I didn't realize that I would have to create a mount point for it, ( I thought it was taken care of, And I wasn't changing anything there, Just /Root, and /User ). If I try to use the partitioning tool, It doesn't allow me to use /storage as an option. It seems to insist on using /var. So now, I have my backups, and some programs sitting on this partition ( HDA 11 ) that I can't access, But would really like to. And, I would like future access to to the drive. Any suggestions ? What happens when you try to mount the partition via a term with: mount /dev/hda11 /mnt/storage (assuming you'd create a /mnt/storage prior to mounting...) ...do you get errors? Does it work? If it works from the term, you can setup an automount for that partition, or create a script to launch from your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script...(/etc/fstab might be edited - ay?) Stephen I get this error : mount point mnt/storage does not exist What does ls -l /mnt display? Miark It displays : 2149 cdrom /2151 cdrom2 / 225795 disk / 2153 floppy / Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mount Point
On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 03:46:31 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get this error : mount point mnt/storage does not exist What does ls -l /mnt display? Miark It displays : 2149 cdrom /2151 cdrom2 / 225795 disk / 2153 floppy / Then, as root, you need to mkdir /mnt/storage Now things should work. Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mount Point
Hello Folks. Wanting more space, and having screwed something up sufficently to warrant a reload, I decided to repartition my harddrive. It all went well, Except. I had a storage drive that I created at /storage. When I repartitioned, I didn't realize that I would have to create a mount point for it, ( I thought it was taken care of, And I wasn't changing anything there, Just /Root, and /User ). If I try to use the partitioning tool, It doesn't allow me to use /storage as an option. It seems to insist on using /var. So now, I have my backups, and some programs sitting on this partition ( HDA 11 ) that I can't access, But would really like to. And, I would like future access to to the drive. Any suggestions ? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Mount Point
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 20:00:28 -0500 Dennis Sue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 07 November 2002 08:15 am, you wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-07 at 19:58, Dennis Sue wrote: Hello Folks. Wanting more space, and having screwed something up sufficently to warrant a reload, I decided to repartition my harddrive. It all went well, Except. I had a storage drive that I created at /storage. When I repartitioned, I didn't realize that I would have to create a mount point for it, ( I thought it was taken care of, And I wasn't changing anything there, Just /Root, and /User ). If I try to use the partitioning tool, It doesn't allow me to use /storage as an option. It seems to insist on using /var. So now, I have my backups, and some programs sitting on this partition ( HDA 11 ) that I can't access, But would really like to. And, I would like future access to to the drive. Any suggestions ? What happens when you try to mount the partition via a term with: mount /dev/hda11 /mnt/storage (assuming you'd create a /mnt/storage prior to mounting...) ...do you get errors? Does it work? If it works from the term, you can setup an automount for that partition, or create a script to launch from your /etc/rc.d/rc.local script...(/etc/fstab might be edited - ay?) Stephen I get this error : mount point mnt/storage does not exist What does ls -l /mnt display? Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Mount Point
I created a new windows partition on my second harddrive. I was going to use diskdrake to set linux to automatically mount it. It won let me mount it at /mnt/win98. How do I get linux to automatically mount a new partition? Thanks, Kevin
Re: [newbie] Mount Point
It was Thu, 19 Jul 2001 15:08:06 -0400 when Kevin Fonner wrote: I created a new windows partition on my second harddrive. I was going to use diskdrake to set linux to automatically mount it. It won let me mount it at /mnt/win98. How do I get linux to automatically mount a new partition? Is the first partition already mounted there? If so, you need to umount that first. Best is to make a /mnt/win98b and mount it there. Paul -- To program is to be. http://nlpagan.net - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 8.0 - Sylpheed 0.5.1 ** http://www.care2.com - when you care **
Re: [newbie] mount point
Hi To create a mount point all one must do is create a directory that they wish to mount the device onto such as: cd /mnt mkdir cdrom Then they can do a mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom assuming that your CD rom is on device hdb. I hope this helps, if not please question me again and I shall try to help more or I will pass it on to someone who knows more than I if I cannot answer correctly. Vic On Tuesday 06 February 2001 12:52 am, so spoke mike smalheiser: hey there, i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom drive, and creating a mount point for it. and i was wondering if you could tell me how to create a moint point for it. thanks alot mike _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] mount point
information about boot aurora?? thanks juank - Original Message - From: "Vic" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 11:21 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] mount point Hi To create a mount point all one must do is create a directory that they wish to mount the device onto such as: cd /mnt mkdir cdrom Then they can do a mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom assuming that your CD rom is on device hdb. I hope this helps, if not please question me again and I shall try to help more or I will pass it on to someone who knows more than I if I cannot answer correctly. Vic On Tuesday 06 February 2001 12:52 am, so spoke mike smalheiser: hey there, i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom drive, and creating a mount point for it. and i was wondering if you could tell me how to create a moint point for it. thanks alot mike _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] mount point
hey there, i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom drive, and creating a mount point for it. and i was wondering if you could tell me how to create a moint point for it. thanks alot mike _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
Re: [newbie] mount point
Tanggal 06 Feb 2001, mike smalheiser mengatakan, hey there, i was wondering what the difference is between mounting my cd-rom drive, and creating a mount point for it. and i was wondering if you could tell me how to create a moint point for it. thanks alot just create a new empty directory (folder) on your hardrive. for example, mount /dev/hdd /mnt/mycdrom my cdrom mount point is ~/1disk/ and make a symlink to /cdrom/ i put "1" to it so its easy for my to pointing it out from command line ;-) mike -- Ribbo "The rain of destruction. It doesn't stop!" -- Doom , Quake 3 Arena
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
Well actualy if that didn't make sense to you. I don't feel comfertable explaining, I dont want to be responsible for breaking anything. On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Sorry to sound so lost, but could you please put that last message in more plain terms? I dont know what procedure youre referring to by "busting out EZddrive disk " and replicating E to F. Thanks, Jerry -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error #include std_disclaimer.h Ok bust out that ezdrive disk, replicate E onto F and then D onto E Now when you install it should accept /dev/hdc1 as a valid mount point for / On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Axalon, I followed your advice and I successfully created a boot disk, logged in and ran the mini LInux installation. During the boot, I gleaned the following info: Hda Quantum Fireball (Hard drive 1) Hdc Maxtor(Hard drive 2) Hdd CD ROM(CD Rom drive) I also ran fdisk as you advised. The results: hda[EZD] [remap 0-1] hdc[PTBL][10227/25/63][hdc1 2 hdc5, hdc6, hdc7 The above was printed after I typed the exact command you suggested fdisk -l /dev/hd/[abcd] After having actually logged in, I entered the same fdisk command as above and the following displayed: "Using /dev/hda as default device!" I them ran a list of the disk: DevBootStartEndBlocksID System /dev/hda1110222060320+6 DOS 16-bit = 32M Oh, by the way, Hda is the Primary (boot) Master and Hdc is the Secondary Master Drive. Can you help? Thnaks. -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Okay, you guys got me. H is the CD Rom Drive. NT is on D and E, F and G are empty. So, do I follow the FIPS procedure now? Why isn't the / Mount POint legal here? Well, you couldn't posibly have selected 'hdc', hdc1 hdc2 etc maybe but never hdc, thats only used to reference a whole drive, eg cdroms. My understanding of your system is as follows hda Primary master. size irrelevent hda1 win95 hdb Primary slave. size 8.4 Gig e: hdb1 - How big are these partition f: hdb5 - g: hdb6 - h: hdb7 - The reason i ask is that the kernel image needs to be located somewhere within the first 1024 Cylinders of the drive. Which is likely what caused the illegal mount point error. in the directory images/rescue/ will be a compressed file, open it up follow the floppy disk creation. This is a self contained mini linux distribution, you can boot the computer with this disk and run fdisk -l /dev/hd[abcd] This will print out the partitions as linux sees them, once armed with this information you might want to take another try at it. -Original Message- From: Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error on 12:05 11/09/1999 -0600, Axalon Bloodstone,wrote 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 Oops! 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 What's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters I wondered that too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Multitasking in Windows allows you to screw up a several things at once. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
Sorry to sound so lost, but could you please put that last message in more plain terms? I dont know what procedure youre referring to by "busting out EZddrive disk " and replicating E to F. Thanks, Jerry -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, September 13, 1999 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error #include std_disclaimer.h Ok bust out that ezdrive disk, replicate E onto F and then D onto E Now when you install it should accept /dev/hdc1 as a valid mount point for / On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Axalon, I followed your advice and I successfully created a boot disk, logged in and ran the mini LInux installation. During the boot, I gleaned the following info: Hda Quantum Fireball (Hard drive 1) Hdc Maxtor(Hard drive 2) Hdd CD ROM(CD Rom drive) I also ran fdisk as you advised. The results: hda[EZD] [remap 0-1] hdc[PTBL][10227/25/63][hdc1 2 hdc5, hdc6, hdc7 The above was printed after I typed the exact command you suggested fdisk -l /dev/hd/[abcd] After having actually logged in, I entered the same fdisk command as above and the following displayed: "Using /dev/hda as default device!" I them ran a list of the disk: DevBootStartEndBlocksID System /dev/hda1110222060320+6 DOS 16-bit = 32M Oh, by the way, Hda is the Primary (boot) Master and Hdc is the Secondary Master Drive. Can you help? Thnaks. -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Okay, you guys got me. H is the CD Rom Drive. NT is on D and E, F and G are empty. So, do I follow the FIPS procedure now? Why isn't the / Mount POint legal here? Well, you couldn't posibly have selected 'hdc', hdc1 hdc2 etc maybe but never hdc, thats only used to reference a whole drive, eg cdroms. My understanding of your system is as follows hda Primary master. size irrelevent hda1 win95 hdb Primary slave. size 8.4 Gig e: hdb1 - How big are these partition f: hdb5 - g: hdb6 - h: hdb7 - The reason i ask is that the kernel image needs to be located somewhere within the first 1024 Cylinders of the drive. Which is likely what caused the illegal mount point error. in the directory images/rescue/ will be a compressed file, open it up follow the floppy disk creation. This is a self contained mini linux distribution, you can boot the computer with this disk and run fdisk -l /dev/hd[abcd] This will print out the partitions as linux sees them, once armed with this information you might want to take another try at it. -Original Message- From: Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error on 12:05 11/09/1999 -0600, Axalon Bloodstone,wrote 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 Oops! 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 What's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters I wondered that too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Multitasking in Windows allows you to screw up a several things at once. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
Axalon, I followed your advice and I successfully created a boot disk, logged in and ran the mini LInux installation. During the boot, I gleaned the following info: Hda Quantum Fireball (Hard drive 1) Hdc Maxtor(Hard drive 2) Hdd CD ROM(CD Rom drive) I also ran fdisk as you advised. The results: hda[EZD] [remap 0-1] hdc[PTBL][10227/25/63][hdc1 2 hdc5, hdc6, hdc7 The above was printed after I typed the exact command you suggested fdisk -l /dev/hd/[abcd] After having actually logged in, I entered the same fdisk command as above and the following displayed: "Using /dev/hda as default device!" I them ran a list of the disk: DevBootStartEndBlocksID System /dev/hda1110222060320+6DOS 16-bit = 32M Oh, by the way, Hda is the Primary (boot) Master and Hdc is the Secondary Master Drive. Can you help? Thnaks. -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Okay, you guys got me. H is the CD Rom Drive. NT is on D and E, F and G are empty. So, do I follow the FIPS procedure now? Why isn't the / Mount POint legal here? Well, you couldn't posibly have selected 'hdc', hdc1 hdc2 etc maybe but never hdc, thats only used to reference a whole drive, eg cdroms. My understanding of your system is as follows hda Primary master. size irrelevent hda1 win95 hdb Primary slave. size 8.4 Gig e: hdb1 - How big are these partition f: hdb5 - g: hdb6 - h: hdb7 - The reason i ask is that the kernel image needs to be located somewhere within the first 1024 Cylinders of the drive. Which is likely what caused the illegal mount point error. in the directory images/rescue/ will be a compressed file, open it up follow the floppy disk creation. This is a self contained mini linux distribution, you can boot the computer with this disk and run fdisk -l /dev/hd[abcd] This will print out the partitions as linux sees them, once armed with this information you might want to take another try at it. -Original Message- From: Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error on 12:05 11/09/1999 -0600, Axalon Bloodstone,wrote 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 Oops! 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 What's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters I wondered that too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Multitasking in Windows allows you to screw up a several things at once. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
#include std_disclaimer.h Ok bust out that ezdrive disk, replicate E onto F and then D onto E Now when you install it should accept /dev/hdc1 as a valid mount point for / On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Axalon, I followed your advice and I successfully created a boot disk, logged in and ran the mini LInux installation. During the boot, I gleaned the following info: Hda Quantum Fireball (Hard drive 1) Hdc Maxtor(Hard drive 2) Hdd CD ROM(CD Rom drive) I also ran fdisk as you advised. The results: hda[EZD] [remap 0-1] hdc[PTBL][10227/25/63][hdc1 2 hdc5, hdc6, hdc7 The above was printed after I typed the exact command you suggested fdisk -l /dev/hd/[abcd] After having actually logged in, I entered the same fdisk command as above and the following displayed: "Using /dev/hda as default device!" I them ran a list of the disk: DevBootStartEndBlocksID System /dev/hda1110222060320+6DOS 16-bit = 32M Oh, by the way, Hda is the Primary (boot) Master and Hdc is the Secondary Master Drive. Can you help? Thnaks. -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Okay, you guys got me. H is the CD Rom Drive. NT is on D and E, F and G are empty. So, do I follow the FIPS procedure now? Why isn't the / Mount POint legal here? Well, you couldn't posibly have selected 'hdc', hdc1 hdc2 etc maybe but never hdc, thats only used to reference a whole drive, eg cdroms. My understanding of your system is as follows hda Primary master. size irrelevent hda1 win95 hdb Primary slave. size 8.4 Gig e: hdb1 - How big are these partition f: hdb5 - g: hdb6 - h: hdb7 - The reason i ask is that the kernel image needs to be located somewhere within the first 1024 Cylinders of the drive. Which is likely what caused the illegal mount point error. in the directory images/rescue/ will be a compressed file, open it up follow the floppy disk creation. This is a self contained mini linux distribution, you can boot the computer with this disk and run fdisk -l /dev/hd[abcd] This will print out the partitions as linux sees them, once armed with this information you might want to take another try at it. -Original Message- From: Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error on 12:05 11/09/1999 -0600, Axalon Bloodstone,wrote 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 Oops! 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 What's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters I wondered that too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Multitasking in Windows allows you to screw up a several things at once. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
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on 17:28 11/09/1999 -0400, Michael Scottaline,wrote Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: what's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters == I wondered that too. = CD-ROM?/ I'ts weird though since under Windows the drive letter for the CD-ROM is normally assigned after all the hard drives have been sorted. D: is usually the second hard drive or, with multiple drives with multiple partitions the first partion of the second drive. My setup is typical: C: = primary partion of primary master D: = primary partion of primary slave E: = first logical partion of primary master F: = second logical partion of primary master G: = third logical partion of primary master H: = first logical partion of primary slave I: = CD-ROM as secondary master Stuart ++ Real Geeks do it with the lid off ! (A)bort, (R)etry, (T)ake down entire network? ++
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
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 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
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
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 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
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Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hat's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters == I wondered that too. = CD-ROM?/ ++ Michael Scottaline COL 2.2 Linux 2.2.5 * * * * * * * * * * * It's a fresh wind that Blows Against the Empire Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
Okay, you guys got me. H is the CD Rom Drive. NT is on D and E, F and G are empty. So, do I follow the FIPS procedure now? Why isn't the / Mount POint legal here? -Original Message- From: Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error on 12:05 11/09/1999 -0600, Axalon Bloodstone,wrote 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 Oops! 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 What's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters I wondered that too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Multitasking in Windows allows you to screw up a several things at once.
Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
I have: hda primary (W95)Master hdb secondary Master(NT and the rest, each 2074megs each 4 all together) -Original Message- From: Axalon Bloodstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote: Okay, you guys got me. H is the CD Rom Drive. NT is on D and E, F and G are empty. So, do I follow the FIPS procedure now? Why isn't the / Mount POint legal here? Well, you couldn't posibly have selected 'hdc', hdc1 hdc2 etc maybe but never hdc, thats only used to reference a whole drive, eg cdroms. My understanding of your system is as follows hda Primary master. size irrelevent hda1 win95 hdb Primary slave. size 8.4 Gig e: hdb1 - How big are these partition f: hdb5 - g: hdb6 - h: hdb7 - The reason i ask is that the kernel image needs to be located somewhere within the first 1024 Cylinders of the drive. Which is likely what caused the illegal mount point error. in the directory images/rescue/ will be a compressed file, open it up follow the floppy disk creation. This is a self contained mini linux distribution, you can boot the computer with this disk and run fdisk -l /dev/hd[abcd] This will print out the partitions as linux sees them, once armed with this information you might want to take another try at it. -Original Message- From: Stuart Burbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:48 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error on 12:05 11/09/1999 -0600, Axalon Bloodstone,wrote 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 Oops! 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 What's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters I wondered that too. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Multitasking in Windows allows you to screw up a several things at once. -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
