I have:
hda primary (W95)Master
hdb secondary Master(NT and the rest, each 2074megs each 4 all together)
-----Original Message-----
From: Axalon Bloodstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 4:59 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
>On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Jerry wrote:
>
>> Okay, you guys got me.
>> H is the CD Rom Drive.
>> NT is on D and E, F and G are empty.
>> So, do I follow the FIPS procedure now?
>> Why isn't the / Mount POint legal here?
>
>Well, you couldn't posibly have selected 'hdc', hdc1 hdc2 etc maybe but
>never hdc, thats only used to reference a whole drive, eg cdroms.
>
>My understanding of your system is as follows
>
>hda Primary master. size irrelevent
>hda1 win95
>
>hdb Primary slave. size 8.4 Gig
>e: hdb1 <- How big are these partition
>f: hdb5 <-
>g: hdb6 <-
>h: hdb7 <-
>
>The reason i ask is that the kernel image needs to be located somewhere
>within the first 1024 Cylinders of the drive. Which is likely what caused
>the illegal mount point error.
>
>in the directory images/rescue/ will be a compressed file, open it up
>follow the floppy disk creation. This is a self contained mini linux
>distribution, you can boot the computer with this disk and run
>
>fdisk -l /dev/hd[abcd]
>
>This will print out the partitions as linux sees them, once armed with
>this information you might want to take another try at it.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Stuart Burbridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Date: Saturday, September 11, 1999 1:48 PM
>> Subject: Re: [newbie] Mount point installation error
>>
>>
>> >on 12:05 11/09/1999 -0600, Axalon Bloodstone,wrote
>> >>On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Stuart Burbridge wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> It sounds like you are probably trying to mount your / directory on
your
>> CD
>> >>> drive.
>> >>> Your current hard drives will look like this in Linux
>> >>> c: = hda1
>> >>> e: = hdb1
>> >>> f: = hdb2
>> >>> g: = hdb3
>> >>> h: = hdb4
>> >>
>> >>close but not quite, extended partitions start at hdX5
>> >>so if you have one primary partition it'll look like
>> >>
>> >>e: hdb1
>> >>f: hdb5
>> >>g: hdb6
>> >>h hdb7
>> >>
>> >Oops!
>> >
>> >>> on 22:31 10/09/1999 -0700, Jerry,wrote
>> >>> >I have two hard drives.
>> >>> >One is C drive with W95.
>> >>> >Other is E F G H 8.4 Gig Maxtor with Windows NT installed on
>> >>> >one of the partitions.
>> >>> >I am having trouble installing mainly as I dont know how to
>> >>> >make sure I install to right partition on second hard drive.
>> >>> >When I select hdc instead of hda1 and type " / " for mount point
>> >>> >I get an error message "illegal mount point "
>> >>> >I have 2047 megs free on three of the four partitions.
>> >>> >Any help appreciated.
>> >>> >JDW
>> >>> >
>> >>> >
>> >>
>> >>What's drive d: windows doesn't skip letters
>> >I wondered that too.
>> >
>> >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>> >Multitasking in Windows allows you to screw up a several things at once.
>>
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