Subject: Re: iBook install: "mount failed: invalid argument"
From: Matthew Ross Davis (mdavis@globalcenter.net)
Date: Wed Jun 21 2000 - 07:16:49 MDT
Wow, this worked! Thanks Josh. The filesystems are built and packages are
installing.
Josh Smith wrote:
> MRD> I'm installing 1.2 on a graphite iBook, and I get all the way through
> MRD> selecting packages and beginnign to create filesystems on the slices.
> MRD> Then the installer displays an error message, "mount failed: invalid
> MRD> argument" with an OK button.
>
> This sounds vaguely familiar, but you said you check the archives, so maybe
> not.
>
> Are you continuing with the installation after partitioning the drive? I was
> having problems when I tried to do that, and found that this sequence worked
> for me: Run fdisk at the usual time, edit the partition map, write the map,
> get the warning message, quit from fdisk, reboot, and then run through the
> initial configuration up the fdisk part, but this time just do "Done" at the
> Partition Disks dialog box (rather than "fdisk"). On the following "Current
> Disk Partitions" screen, all the partitions should appear (the ones that you
> set up the first time through). See if that does the trick for you...
>
> That may not be it, since I recall the symptoms being different of the
> problem for which that was the solution. Maybe worth a shot though.
>
> -Josh (irilyth@infersys.com)
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