Joe Sloan wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> With help from others I am now able to get openSuSE to recognize all of >> my drives; however, When I click on show all drives and indicate my root >> partition the installation program doesn't recognize the file system for >> any of the drives. All of the drives, except for swap, are EXT3. I have >> tried telling the install program my file system is : EXT3, EXT3-fs, >> ext3-fs, ext3, and (native linux) EXT3. none of which work. >> > > The above doesn't sound like any suse installer I've seen. > > When you say "the installation program doesn't recognize the file system > for any of them", are these all existing file systems that you are > trying to preserve, and keep from being touched by the installer? If so, > how were these file systems created? > > Your statement about telling the installer what file systems you have > doesn't make any sense. The installer has a menu of file systems, ext3 > is one of those menu items, and only one. Can you explain what you meant > when you listed the various spellings and capitalizations of ext3 above? > > Joe > I will use bold type for program reponse.
I will list step by step what I do and what happens I have a disk with openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386 on it. When I boot it I get the green splash screen, then I get the gray screen: *Installation screen* *initializing* *language:* english us click next *media check* media checks ok click next check yes to agree to lic. agreement click next *system probe installation mode check update* click next *downloading build repository, etc. intializing package manager evaluating root partition select for update* empty box check show all partitions select openSUSE 10.2 /dev/hdc3 i386 linux native (ext3) / for updating click next Box with the following message: *The partition /dev/hda4 could not be mounted mount: you must specify filesystem type if you are sure that the partition is not needed by the installation click on continue [Continue] [Specify file sytem type] [cancel] * click specify another box * Mount Options * *mount point : /boot device : /dev/hda4 file system (empty for autodetection) * if I leave the file system box empty it returns to the prior box that states the partition could not be mounted, etc. The various spelling; i.e. EXT3, ext3, etc. are examples of what I tried in the file sytem box in the Mount Options box. Hope this clarifies what I said previously Thanks again Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
