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Fedora Linux Problem

Post by domhunt » Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:41 pm

I'm trying to install Fedora via a LiveCD on my external hard drive and when it's formatting the drive it keeps returning this message

An error occurred mounting device /dev/sdb1 as /boot: mount failed: (2, None). This is a fatal error and the install cannot continue.

Everytime i've installed an older version it's worked perfectly but number 11 seems to hate me,

anyone know how i can get around this?

Much appreciated
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by bass hertz » Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:00 pm

domhunt wrote:I'm trying to install Fedora via a LiveCD on my external hard drive and when it's formatting the drive it keeps returning this message

An error occurred mounting device /dev/sdb1 as /boot: mount failed: (2, None). This is a fatal error and the install cannot continue.

Everytime i've installed an older version it's worked perfectly but number 11 seems to hate me,

anyone know how i can get around this?

Much appreciated
Either in bios or with the dip switches, you need to set that external drive as master, not slave.

on a normal master drive
are you setting up a dual boot sys off one drive? with like lilo or grub as the booter? also is your drive in multi partitions already? is it ntfs or fat32? whats the old os? propertiary computer? like drivers locked on an onboard computer? have you tried a low level factory format? did you defrag if you had ntfs on xp???
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by domhunt » Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:41 pm

I've got it all sorted out now, thanks anyway. It's my hard drive being shit...
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by macroclimate » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:07 am

Format and install Gentoo. ;)
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by bass hertz » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:26 am

macroclimate wrote:Format and install Gentoo. ;)
install Sabayon!
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by domhunt » Tue Oct 06, 2009 2:00 pm

Sabayon is in some Dutch shit, might have to go with Gentoo ;D
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by NilsFG » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:28 pm

Fedora ftw
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by USTD » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:40 pm

DEBIANNNNN!
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by domhunt » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:10 pm

FreeBSD ;)
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by Skipzoid » Wed Oct 07, 2009 12:24 am

While we're on this bandwagon...

ArchLinux!




No, really.
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Re: Fedora Linux Problem

Post by bass hertz » Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:12 am

domhunt wrote:Sabayon is in some Dutch shit, might have to go with Gentoo ;D
Sabayon is an Italian distro.

And IT IS gentoo, on the foundation.
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