On Tue, Jul 03, 2001 at 04:28:02PM -0400, Greg Teigue wrote: > because i am lazy and have to manually type all that out, i am just going to > cut to the chase..... > # mount reveals that / failed on mount, and was subsequently remounted -ro > because of errors. > > told you i was new ;) > > anyhow, i have tried to use other sdd's previously and that would lead me to > believe that it is not hardware but configuration related. it would appear > that this is related to fdisk. i used the s option and made it whole drive. > i then partitioned the sdb as sdb1 sdb2 sdb3, with ext2 partitions. they > mount fine. > > a peer of mine (very MCSE but working to change) suggested that i fdisk with > a different disty (like redhat) then put debian on the existing partitions > from that fdisk. the reason he said this is from his experience(small) of > having debian fdisk bork on sparc. another peer (heavy *nix experience) > said just put redhat on it and be done, i refrained from smacking him. > > anyhow, my question is: how should i fdisk this puppy to get me through > this problem? i have read the FM and have done things as near to "by the > book" as i can, which is why i am bothering you fine people.
Your problem is that you made the 3rd partition a filesystem instead of leaving as "Whole Disk", like fdisk tries to do. RH's fdisk is the same as ours. The problem is user error :) Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
