[97158] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Big Disk Installation Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sun Nov 1 15:38:56 1998
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 15:37:40 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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John Helly wrote:
> Hi.
>
> The latest adventure is the installation of a MAXTOR 6.4GB drive. First,
> Disk Druid kept insisting that I hadn't defined a swap partition although I
> definitely had. I used fdisk to get around this problem and now, at least,
> the swap partition seems to be ok. However, after building all the
> filesystems, the install fails (at the end of course after 10-15 minutes of
> processing) with a message of 'mount failed'. That's it. I have no idea
> what is going on or how to begin to debug it. Any ideas would be very
> definitely welcome.
What version of Redhat? Official Boxed Set, or low-cost
Redhat CD from a 3rd party?
Scsi disk? IDE?
Show us the output from:
# cat /etc/fstab
# fdisk -l
if you can. Otherwise, state what partitions you wanted
to be mounted during the install, and their mount points.
Also tell us what your machines firmware (DEL key at boot)
says are the disk's cylinders/heads/sectors.
Fdisk can do everything you need. You have to understand it and
PC disk partitioning though.
Disk druid charges ahead without finding out what you want.
That's great, as long as you don't know what you want either.
>
>
> Cheers.
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