I haven't tried to install Knoppix, but Knoppix
runs great from the
CD on my machine.
I haven't tried creating more but smaller
partitions, but I'll
give it a shot.
Thanks.
Doug
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>All the above said, I'm not entirely clear on
what your actual problem
>is. Why do you need to mount an extra filesystem
by hand from the
>installer?
Thanks to all for the advice so far. I'm not
trying to mount any "extra" filesystem. I'm trying
to mount the root, and the
> 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3
/wherever/you/want/to/put/it', if it's a
> standard Linux filesystem.
Thanks to all for the advice so far. Let me
explain exactly what I have been trying. The
Debian installation program can't mount the root
partition because it contains an invalid a
>All the above said, I'm not entirely clear on
what your actual problem
>is. Why do you need to mount an extra filesystem
by hand from the
>installer?
I'm not trying to mount any "extra" filesystem.
I'm trying to mount the root, and the Debian
installer won't let me. After
The installer I'm using is the one which starts up
when you boot the official Debian CD. I just
bought a 7 CD set which is labeled:
debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2[woody] i386 binary
As for my level of expertise... well, zero
experience with Linux. I have been using DOS/WIN
since D
I re-created my partitions. Now hda1 is 30mb and
set as bootable, hda2 is 1gb and is activated as
the swap drive, and hda3 is about 78gb. I
initialized hda1 and hda3 as "Linux native". After
initializing hda1, the installation program said I
must mount the root filesystem before con
(Bpartition as the root, and I have tried numerous
times, but always get the [invalid argument]
error.
Can anyone out there give me some pointers?
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