I haven't tried to install Knoppix, but Knoppix
(Bruns great from the
(BCD on my machine.
(B
(BI haven't tried creating more but smaller
(Bpartitions, but I'll
(Bgive it a shot.
(B
(BThanks.
(B
(BDoug
(B
(B
(B--
(BTo UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Bwith a subject of
All the above said, I'm not entirely clear on
(Bwhat your actual problem
(Bis. Why do you need to mount an extra filesystem
(Bby hand from the
(Binstaller?
(B
(BI'm not trying to mount any "extra" filesystem.
(BI'm trying to mount the root, and the Debian
(Binstaller won't let me. After
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:45:49 +0900, Douglas Dreistadt wrote:
The system always comes back with: Mount failed:
invalid argument
The installer doesn't display the command line, so
I have no idea what argument is invalid. At that
point, I can't continue until I mount the root
'mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3
(B/wherever/you/want/to/put/it', if it's a
(B standard Linux filesystem.
(B
(BThanks to all for the advice so far. Let me
(Bexplain exactly what I have been trying. The
(BDebian installation program can't mount the root
(Bpartition because it contains an invalid
I re-created my partitions. Now hda1 is 30mb and
(Bset as bootable, hda2 is 1gb and is activated as
(Bthe swap drive, and hda3 is about 78gb. I
(Binitialized hda1 and hda3 as "Linux native". After
(Binitializing hda1, the installation program said I
(Bmust mount the root filesystem before
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 12:31, Douglas Dreistadt wrote:
to be a Catch 22. I can't do anything else until I
mount the root filesystem. It won't let me mount
hda3 as the root because of an invalid argument.
I don't know what installer you're using, and I don't know the amount of
expertise on your
The installer I'm using is the one which starts up
(Bwhen you boot the official Debian CD. I just
(Bbought a 7 CD set which is labeled:
(B
(Bdebian GNU/Linux 3.0r2[woody] i386 binary
(B
(BAs for my level of expertise... well, zero
(Bexperience with Linux. I have been using DOS/WIN
(Bsince
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:34:33AM +0900, Douglas Dreistadt wrote:
I tried Alt-F2, and guessed that the command for mounting a disk was
mount. I tried mount hda3 and mount /dev/hda3 and several other
combinations of these, but I keep getting the error Can't find hda3
in /etc/fstab I also tried
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 09:34:33AM +0900, Douglas Dreistadt imagined:
As for my level of expertise... well, zero experience with
Linux. I have been using DOS/WIN since DOS 3.2, so I do feel
comfortable at the command line, but I am not familiar with
Linux commands. I was really impressed with
of
installation. I have made it as far as disk
formatting, but cannot mount(?) the root
partition.
When I try to mount dev/hda1 as the root file
system, I get a [Mount failed: Invalid argument]
error, and cannot proceed beyond that point.
That
error doesn't make sense to me, since I
tem, I get a [Mount failed: Invalid argument]
(Berror, and cannot proceed beyond that point. That
(Berror doesn't make sense to me, since I am using
(Bthe installation system setup menus, not the
(Bcommand line, and cannot add any arguments.
(B
(BI am working with a 80gb Seagate hard disk. I
(
/hda1 as the root file
system, I get a [Mount failed: Invalid argument]
error, and cannot proceed beyond that point. That
error doesn't make sense to me, since I am using
the installation system setup menus, not the
command line, and cannot add any arguments.
perhaps /dev/hda1 rather than dev
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