Subject: Re: error creating partitions
From: Jonathan Mergy (mergy@natus.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 13:52:57 MDT
yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com writes:
>
>I always get a 'fatal error' when creating the partitions with the YDL
>installer, something like:
>OSSERR: ERRNO 17
>file exists:tmp/root/etc
>File '/usr/lib/yi/mount.pi' line 505, in WriteOS.mkdir
>and 2 more similar errors
>Got no clue on how to fix it...
>Anyone advice?
>Thanks a lot...
>
>hw: B&W G3 (new ROM) and lots of RAM
>
I got this too (DualG4/500). Do you have a zip or jaz drive? If so, put
disks in them to give the installer something to touch. I have an
internal scsi card and internal 2 gig jaz, usb zip and usb floppy. The zip
wasn't a factor, but I though the internal scsi hard drive was and that
was what I was originally installing YDL onto. I kept getting the above
errors.
When I put a jaz disk in my jaz drive, even though I didn't do any mount
points on it (but I did eventually create a /jaz mount for the drive) I
was able to not get that error.
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jonathan mergy
mergy@natus.com
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