Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Mount failed: Invalid argument

2004-01-12 Thread Douglas Dreistadt
I haven't tried to install Knoppix, but Knoppix runs great from the CD on my machine. I haven't tried creating more but smaller partitions, but I'll give it a shot. Thanks. Doug -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Re: Re: Re: Mount failed: Invalid argument

2004-01-10 Thread Douglas Dreistadt
>All the above said, I'm not entirely clear on what your actual problem >is. Why do you need to mount an extra filesystem by hand from the >installer? Thanks to all for the advice so far. I'm not trying to mount any "extra" filesystem. I'm trying to mount the root, and the

Re: Re: Re: Re: Mount failed: Invalid argument

2004-01-09 Thread Douglas Dreistadt
> 'mount -t ext2 /dev/hda3 /wherever/you/want/to/put/it', if it's a > standard Linux filesystem. Thanks to all for the advice so far. Let me explain exactly what I have been trying. The Debian installation program can't mount the root partition because it contains an invalid a

Re: Re: Re: Re: Mount failed: Invalid argument

2004-01-09 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 11:45:49 +0900, Douglas Dreistadt wrote: > The system always comes back with: "Mount failed: > invalid argument" > > The installer doesn't display the command line, so > I have no idea what argument is invalid. At that > point, I can't continue until I mount the root, > and th

Re: Re: Re: Re: Mount failed: Invalid argument

2004-01-09 Thread Douglas Dreistadt
>All the above said, I'm not entirely clear on what your actual problem >is. Why do you need to mount an extra filesystem by hand from the >installer? I'm not trying to mount any "extra" filesystem. I'm trying to mount the root, and the Debian installer won't let me. After