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Mount Failed: Invalid Arguement

Hi all;

I have a Dell Demension V400 with 128 megs of ram and an 8 gig maxtor hard drive
I am installing Linux 6.0

Partition Schema

/ hda1 3 gig Linux Native
Designated for root
/u01 hda3 502 mb Linux Native
Designated for Oracle 8.0.5 for Linux
/hda1 hda4 305 mb Dos 16bit >= 32
Designated for DOS system
/nt hda6 3 gig Dos 16bit >= 32
Designated for NT
blank hda7 603mb Linux Swap
Self explanitory
/u02 hda8 300mb Linux Native
Designated for file storage

Problem:
Partition goes fine
Install of ext2 system for /dev/hda1 goes fine
Install of /dev/hda3 seems to go fine then I get the following error:

ERROR

Mount Point Failure: Invalid Arguement.

Does anyone know how to get around this thank

Pyramid...

biard

I don't think you can have a mount point called "/hda1" as you do for partition hda4. That is probably an invalid mount point name. Try to change it to something that doesn't resemble a partition name.

patowic

/hda1 should be a valid mount point, provided the directory exists. Have you already made the /u02, /hda1 and /nt directories?

patowic

Okay, after checking my own /etc/fstab, are all your lines in this format:

device mount point type flags # # ?

thus, mounting my root partition is:

/dev/hda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /w95 vfat defaults 0 0

Does that help?

patowic

/hda1 should be a valid mount point, provided the directory exists. Have you already made the /u02, /hda1 and /nt directories?

pyramid

ASKER

The directory schema according to the Druid partitioning system is as follows

Logical Name, Physical Name and disk location, Size of space, Type of space

thanks

P....

DVB

hd* is reserved for physical devices. biard is right. Try changing the name to something else. You can always change mount points later, by creating the directories and editing /etc/fstab.

pyramid

ASKER

Yes I did discovered that when I repartitioned with different names so I will award biard the points. But I will need a proposed answer.

thanks for your help, no doubt I will be asking more questions in the future..

P

patowic

/hda1 is a valid mountpoint.

[root@catscratch /root]# df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda4 1014655 675657 286582 70% /
/dev/hda1 1048032 567296 480736 54% /hda1
[root@catscratch /root]#

See? You must have changed something else. Biard is not right.

DVB

Patovic, the problem lies only during the installation phase, look up the log file in /tmp.
The mount points can always be changed later to suit your needs.

patowic

If that's so, then someone should email redhat to tell them their installation program is braindead, and Baird should accept my heartfelt apology ;)

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patowic

Oh, and for anyone else who happens to read this: avoid disk druid like the plague. It's buggy. fdisk works as advertised, and I've never had problems with it. Disk druid, on the other hand, has been a 50-50 proposition for me: 50% of the time it mostly works, 50% of the time it doesn't work at all...