This should be dirt simple, and I've already done it several times, so I'm not really 
understanding what I've done wrong here, but...

I wanted to build a new Linux/390 image. I created the new userid, loaded up the ram 
image, went through defining the network and logged into root via telnet. I ran YaST, 
picked the language and install from FTP, selected my swap device, and got to the dasd 
definitions.

On the Partition Harddrives box, "Partitioning" is not an allowable choice (tabbing 
jumps over it). I can only choose "Do not partition" or "Setting up LVM".

I marked my dasd: 292-ext2-Normal format-/, 294-ext2-Normal-/usr, 
295-ext2-Normal-/home, and 296-ext2-Normal-/usr/local. I selected continue.

The message I get back is "An error occurred mounting the filesystem of partition 
"/dev/dasda1" to the directory "/mnt". Here is the error message of the 'mount' 
command: mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/dasda1, or too many 
mounted file systems". It gives options for "Repeat" or "Abort".

On the system console, I have the message "VFS: Can't find an ext2 filesystem on dev 
dasd(94,1).", just after the message about adding the swap-space.

>From the system console, I can mount -t ext2 /dev/dasda /mnt, but I cannot mount -t 
>ext2 /dev/dasda1 /mnt.

I tried hand-formatting and running mke2fs for the devices before starting YaST, but 
that seems to have no effect on the problem either.

What am I doing wrong?

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