In a message dated 5/30/99 9:46:46 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hi,
> I am a newbie to both UNIX and LINUX and have been detoured in my
> Red Hat 5.2 installation by confusion about just what to type when it
> comes to naming my "root" partition. Do I type /root or just / or
> something else? My installation failed with the message:
>
> "Error during step "Install System" of the install"
> "mount failed: invalid argument"
>
> And the failure was about hda10 which is where my root directory was
> supposed to be. Thanks in advance for help with this.
>
> Lou Mulieri
> Hinesburg, VT
Hi Lou,
I have always named my "root" partition "/", and I have never had any
problem. As far as the error message goes, is it saying /hda10 or /dev/hda10?
In either case, it doesn't sound right to me, although I don't know of any
limitation that would keep it from working.
Good luck,
Noel
