On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 12:31, Douglas Dreistadt wrote: > to be a Catch 22. I can't do anything else until I > mount the root filesystem. It won't let me mount > hda3 as the root because of an invalid argument.
I don't know what installer you're using, and I don't know the amount of expertise on your side... Try #1: open another virtual terminal (Alt-F2) and try to mount your drive from there, manually. Quite likely you'll get a more detailed error message. Try #2: use a completely different installer. Look here: http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Debian/installers.html cu, Schnobs -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]