Bug#42580: marked as done (error when trying to mount a partition not marked as native could be better)
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From: Tom Arns <tarns@SandCraft.com>
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Subject: unable to mount an ATAPI zip drive for installation
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Package: boot-floppies
Version: 2.1
CD source: LinuxMall 2-CD's
I was unable to mount my ATAPI zip drive during installation.
I booted from the CD and proceeded through the menus to the
point of selecting:
alternate: mount an existing linux partition
I have an ext2 formatted zip disk in the drive, and the menu
displays The zip partition: ( /dev/hdb4 ) as one of the choices,
however, when I select it, I get the following message:
Mount Failed: Invalid argument
I am able to switch to another tty and mount the CD successfully.
I found a similar bug (24054) in the database, however this problem
seems to somewhat different, in that for 24054, the zip partition
did not show up in the menu at all.
My Hardware:
Intel AL440LX motherboard, PII-300
ATAPI Hard Drive, CDROM, ZIP
The zip drive works fine with my current Slackware installation.
Thanks in advance for your help,
Tom Arns
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From: Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>
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Subject: Re: Debian Bug report logs - #42580
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In-Reply-To: <m13SadG-000algC@finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE>; from joey on Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 09:44:02AM +0200
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> I found that the ext2 formatted partition on the zip drive which I was using
> had not been marked as a linux native partition. After I made it linux native
> I was able to proceed with the installation.
If it wasn't entitled 'Linux native' why did it show up in the mentioned
list anyway? I just tried to mount a FAT16 and 'Linux swap' disk with
dbootstrap, didn't work since it didn't show up. Using the potato
dbootstrap, of course.
> So all this bug amounts to at this point is a suggestion that the installation
> program give a more informative error message in this situation.
Mount normally doesn't care about the partition type, thus I don't
understand the problem at all, which in turn means there is no way
for me to fix the problem.
Regards,
Joey
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