Re: [newbie] Partitioning problems

[Anonymous]

Thanks to everybody who helped me.

The problem is solved.

Bye

Pasquale

[newbie] Partitioning problems

[Anonymous]

Hallo,

I have enjoyed some months Mandrake 5.3 on a 3.2Gb disk partitioned as follows:
2,1Gb windows part. 'C'
400Mb windows part. 'D'
700Mb Linux partitions

Now I got Mandrake 6.0 and I tried to partion my hard disk this way:
2.1Gb windows part. 'C'
1.1Gb Linux partitions

With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions instead,
but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition!
Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help.

'fdisk' lists my partitions as:
/tmp/hda1  Win95 FAT32
/tmp/hda2  Extended
/tmp/hda5  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda6  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda7  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda8  Linux swap

I think they should be:

/dev/hda1 etc.
 ^^^
Can anyone help me to solve the problem?

Thank you very much!


Pasquale Zapelli

Re: [newbie] Partitioning problems

[Anonymous]

At 12:39 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote:
With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions
instead,
but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition!
Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help.

'fdisk' lists my partitions as:
/tmp/hda1  Win95 FAT32
/tmp/hda2  Extended
/tmp/hda5  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda6  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda7  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda8  Linux swap

I would have done:
/dev/hda1 Win95
/dev/hda2 Linux native (root)
/dev/hda3 Extended
/dev/hda5 Linux native
/dev/hda6 Linux native
/dev/hda7 Linux native
/dev/hda8 Linux swap

hih
nick@nexnix

Re: [newbie] Partitioning problems

[Anonymous]

At 12:39 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote:
With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions
instead,
but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition!
Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help.

'fdisk' lists my partitions as:
/tmp/hda1  Win95 FAT32
/tmp/hda2  Extended
/tmp/hda5  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda6  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda7  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda8  Linux swap

I would have done:
/dev/hda1 Win95
/dev/hda2 Linux native (root)
/dev/hda3 Extended
/dev/hda5 Linux native
/dev/hda6 Linux native
/dev/hda7 Linux native
/dev/hda8 Linux swap

Done. But I still have the same problem. I think the problem is that my
partitions appear
to be on "/tmp" instead of on "/dev". Do you know how can I change this?

Thanks

Pasquale

Re: [newbie] Partitioning problems

[Anonymous]

At 15:31 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote:
At 12:39 18/06/99 +0200, you wrote:
With DiskDruid I cancelled partition 'D' and created Linux partitions
instead,
but I got the error message that /root must be on a linux native partition!
Well /root IS on a linux native partition, but it doesn't help.

'fdisk' lists my partitions as:
/tmp/hda1  Win95 FAT32
/tmp/hda2  Extended
/tmp/hda5  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda6  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda7  Linux (native)
/tmp/hda8  Linux swap

I would have done:
/dev/hda1 Win95
/dev/hda2 Linux native (root)
/dev/hda3 Extended
/dev/hda5 Linux native
/dev/hda6 Linux native
/dev/hda7 Linux native
/dev/hda8 Linux swap

Done. But I still have the same problem. I think the problem is that my
partitions appear
to be on "/tmp" instead of on "/dev". Do you know how can I change this?

You're running fdisk during the install - fdisk will report the partitions
with
/tmp instead of the usual /dev. This is normal - I've just checked one of my
machines.

I'm betting that your root partition is not within 1024 cylinders or that
your lilo.conf has "root=/dev/hda1" instead of "root=/dev/hda2" - did you
allow the installation to make a dual-boot machine?


Thanks

Pasquale