Re: fail to mount HD during install


Subject: Re: fail to mount HD during install
From: Steve Gula (gulajs@jmu.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 24 1904 - 09:09:47 MST


on 10/24/00 9:34 AM, cdowns at cdowns@skillsoft.com wrote:

> Steve Gula wrote:
>
>> Anyone know why YDL would say mount failed when trying to mount /dev/hda9
>> (HFS, not HFS+)? YDL won't install from the CD (completely stalls), so I
>> copied the files to the HD and now it fails to mount the HD.
>>
>> --Steve "Loco3KGT" Gula
>>
>> btw, if this is a repost of this problem, I apologize, but I can't remember
>> if I posted about this already.
>
> make sure you specify the mount point of root as / not /root . in the disk
> druid setup after you have successfully completed the fdisk and written the
> correct parition sequence.
>
> good luck, chris
>
>

When does YDL ask for fdisk? So far (for me), install has gone like this :
boot from CD and get asked what media I want to install from. It goes
straight to the install program, no prompt to use fdisk or disk druid.

--Steve



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