Re: Partition problems

[Keith McDuffee <http://www.cns.bu.edu/~keithm>]

I can't remember what I did to fix the problem, but I seem to remember that
once I remade the floppies, it all worked fine.  Let me know if you have
trouble, because I did this several times without a hitch now.

Keith

At 04:00 PM 3/3/97 -0800, you wrote:
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> > From: Keith McDuffee <http://www.cns.bu.edu/~keithm>
> > Date: Mon  Mar  3,  3:58pm
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> > I'm attempting to install the latest Linux (Slackware 3.1) on a Dell
> > OptiPlex Pro with an Adaptec 2940UW SCSI controller.  I just got the
> > system with Windows NT 4.0 pre-installed on it, so I had to repartition
> > the drive using 'defrag' and the 'fips', which seemed to work fine.
> > 
> > Next I created a Linux bootdisk with the 'aha2x4x.s' image supplied on
> > the Slackware CD-ROM, and then created a root disk with the 'text.gz'
> > image (the 'color.gz' mage didn't work for some reason).  When the
> > system finally booted, I used 'fdisk' to make the second partion a Linux
> > native partition.
> > 
> > So now when I boot from the Linux boot/root floppy and try to run
> > 'setup', the program continually complains about running out of disk
> > space on '/mnt', yet the partition I made is over 1 gig!  From what I
> > can tell, the bootup never mounts the Linux partition (/dev/sda2) at
> > /mnt.  I try mounting manually with 'mount /dev/sda2 /mnt', yet it says
> > that there is no such device.  It certainly sees this partition at boot
> > time, though.
> > 
> > Am I right in assuming that this partition is supposed to be mounted at
> > /mnt before installation proceeds and that the reason it is saying the
> > disk is full is because it's trying to write to the floppy?
> > 
> > Please e-mail responses, thanks!
> > 
> > Keith McDuffee
> > http://www.cns.bu.edu/~keithm
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>Hi.  Did you work out this problem?  I'm planning to try the defrag/fips for
>my Windows NT installation, but I'd like to make sure I know the pitfalls
>before I begin.
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>Thanks.