Fw: Installation Problem

[frank_rieder at bankone.com]

Sorry this may be a little off target but, something grabbed my attention.


Quote"I decided to install Fedora on a different HD (I have 3 on the
platform)
and told the Fedora installer to use /dev/hdb2 as the root directory,
the installer found the swap partition."/Quote

I thought it was a bad practice to use the samw swap partition for multiple
Linux Installs?

I have always kept all of my installs on different Disks, with their own
swap.  That would save me a few GIG if I could reuse the Swap.



Frank Rieder
Operations Specialist
Banc One Leasing Corporation
Mail code OH1-1085
Phone: 614-213-4591
Fax: 614-213-2083
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Email : Frank Rieder at Bankone.com






"Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>@colug.net on 06/09/2004
07:20:06 AM

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Trying again for a response.

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Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 16:21:53 -0400
From: "Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D." <s.molnar at sbcglobal.net>
To: COLUG <colug at colug.net>
Subject: Installation Problem


I'm currently running SuSE v9.0 with the root on /dev/hda3 and thought
that I'd give RedHat Fedora a try (aster all, the price is right).

I downloaded the iso images and successfully burned the CD's.  The
Fedora installer checked them and they passed.

I decided to install Fedora on a different HD (I have 3 on the platform)
and told the Fedora installer to use /dev/hdb2 as the root directory,
the installer found the swap partition. The installer went ahead and did
so without any complaints and the installation went trundling along.
Fedora uses the grub boot loader, which is what I've been using for a
couple of years now, and the installer found the SuSE partition and let
me select it as the default. So far, so good, or at least I though so
until I rebooted the system. Grub opened up with linux as the default,
and it turned out to be my SuSE partition.  Fedora was not in evidence,
nor could I mount the partition once I was up and running in SuSE.  The
error message is:

abnormal:/ # mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /Fedora
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb2,
       or too many mounted file systems
       (aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
       instead of some logical partition inside?)

In fact if I do fdisk on /dev/hdb it tells me that /dev/hdb2 is ID f and
the System is Win95 Ext'd (LBA).

I would at least like to be able to start the Fedora partition.  Does
anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.           Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for Chemistry           Stochastic and multivariant
http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry


--
Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D.           Life is a fuzzy set
Foundation for Chemistry           Stochastic and multivariant
http://www.geocities.com/FoundationForChemistry
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