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Wackie
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Joined: 07 Oct 2002
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 Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 9:34 am Post subject: Mount: Mount point /mnt/gentoo/var does not exist |
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Here's the setup:
/dev/hda: 120gb Maxtor (running WinXP Pro at NTFS)
/dev/hdb: 20gb Maxtor
partition setup of /dev/hdb (according to cfdisk):
between the '( )''s are the future mount points
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hdb1 Boot Primary Linux ext3 49.36 (/boot)
hdb2 Primary Linux swap 1497.01 (swapspace)
hdb5 Logical Linux ext3 1497.01 (/)
hdb6 Logical Linux ext3 748.51 (/var)
hdb7 Logical Linux ext3 246.76 (/tmp)
hdb8 Logical Linux ext3 748.51 (/home)
hdb9 Logical Linux ext3 10001.95 (/usr)
FREE SPACE 5700.12
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to initialize /dev/hdb1 i used dd:
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dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdb1 bs=1024 count=1024
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which goes well
almost forgot, setting ext3 as filesystem:
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mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
mke2fs -j /dev/hdb5
mke2fs -j /dev/hdb6
mke2fs -j /dev/hdb7
mke2fs -j /dev/hdb8
mke2fs -j /dev/hdb9
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no errors so far.
then I set up and initialize the swap space:
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mkswap /dev/hdb2
swapon /dev/hdb2
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no problems so far
then creating all the mount point:
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mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/tmp
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr
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nothing hard about that, ey?
and then where the problems start, assigning the dir's to the mount points:
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mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot/
mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/gentoo/
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these 2 go well, but then:
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mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/var
mount: mount point /mnt/gentoo/var does not exist
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can anybody tell me what I did wrong?
NOTE: I did UTFS, couldn't find the same problem I just posted. |
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pYrania
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Joined: 27 Oct 2002
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Location: Cologne - Germany
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 1:16 pm Post subject: |
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you should first mount /dev/hdb5 into /mnt/gentoo
and THEN create the needed directories.
otherwise they will be created on the current disk and not on hdb5.
so after mounting hdb5 there won't be any directories in /mnt/gentoo
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zhenlin
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Joined: 09 Nov 2002
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| Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 1:40 pm Post subject: |
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mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/gentoo/
cd /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/tmp
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/var
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That's the correct order of doing things. |
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nowhcreek
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Joined: 15 Nov 2002
Posts: 12
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| Posted: Sun Dec 08, 2002 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| zhenlin wrote: |
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mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/gentoo/
cd /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/tmp
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/var
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Should this be?
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mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/gentoo
cd /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/tmp
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/var
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I am not sure myself as gentoo will be my first linux install. However the situation above is exactly what I want to do so I am just making sure.
Thanks in advance. |
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