[97311] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Big Disk Installation Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Helly)
Mon Nov 2 14:56:24 1998
From: "John Helly" <hellyj@SDSC.EDU>
To: <janc@iname.com>
Cc: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 12:03:21 -0800
In-Reply-To: <363CC694.848E8CC4@iname.com>
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Hi.
Thanx for the reply.
Here's the info you requested:
1. Official Boxed Set Release 5.0 Hurricane
2. Maxtor DiamondMax IDE Drive; only drive; 6.4G
3. I've looked at the output of fstab but my Linux machine is not connected
to the net. I have to do a lot of security work first before I connect it
so I won't send the output just repeat it here:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda4 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
4. cyl 13176/hd 16/sec 63
>
> 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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