Thank you Bob for your help. I deleted everything on the B drive and made it free space. I ran the installer CD again, and BINGO! It is up and running. Seems like the installer CD did not like what I tried to set up. Learn something everyday. I will do some more reading. Thank you for your help, Dave
----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 21:09 Subject: Re: no root file system question > David Ashworth wrote: > > Hello, hope I am in the right area to ask this question. If I am > > not, please tell me a better place. > > This list is about creating CD images. The debian-boot list would be > more appropriate. It is about the debian-installer and your question > is really more about how to drive the installer. Here are some > resources that will be useful to you. > > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/ > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/ > > But let me give you a few hints here anyway. > > > I am trying to install debian via the cd. I get to one area and I > > am stumped. I get the message" no root file system is defined. > > please correct this from the partitioning menu." Now, I go to the > > partitioning menu and go around and around in a loop and get the > > same no root file system message. I don't know what it wants. Maybe > > something simple, but what? > > I don't remember the exact wording but perhaps I can give enough hints > to provide help anyway. > > The root filesystem is the part where you would have indicated it > being "ext3" or one of the others and assigned it the the "/" > location. Do you remember doing that? > > > I am using the second drive in my PC. It is all Linux. Here is what it > > looks like: (hdb) 61.5 GB, #1 primary 59.3 GB B K lvm, #5 logical 2.2 GB > > F swap swap. > > It is a little hard to read what you wrote since those lines are > smashed together but neither of those are the root partition. The > first is a partition that is indicated to be used for LVM. When this > is seen by the installer it will add a new option to the top list > which is to configure the lvm manager. After assigning a partition > for use with LVM then you must then configure lvm to create logical > volumes and then use one of those logical volumes for the root > partition. But as you show things now you do not yet have a partition > assigned to the root filesystem. The second partition that you show > is a swap partition. > > > So, I am in this loop. Where is this root file? Is it on the CD? I am new > > to this, so I am a little confused. Everything up to this step has gone OK. > > Been reading the help files, but being as I am new to this, more confusion > > than help. > > If you want to continue with lvm then configure the lvm manager and > create a volume group and then create a logical volume on that volume > group. Then assign it to the root partition. > > If you have never used lvm before it can be somewhat confusing. I use > lvm routinely because it allows me to resize partitions and in general > think it is a good thing to use. But if you are not familiar with lvm > them it might be better to try the installation without it. That > would make things a little bit simpler. In which case you could > delete the lvm partition and use that space for a regular ext3 > filesystem and then assign that filesystem to "/". > > This is where the "guided" partitioning is very helpful. You could > simply allow the installer to automatically partition the disk for > you. Putting everything into one filesystem may be the easiest way to > get going. > > Bob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
