Re: [opensuse] Upgrade doesn't recognize filesystem

Joe Sloan wrote:
regus_patoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

With help from others I am now able to get openSuSE to recognize all of
my drives; however, When I click on show all drives and indicate my root
partition the installation program doesn't recognize the file system for
any of the drives. All of the drives, except for swap, are EXT3. I have
tried telling the install program my file system is : EXT3, EXT3-fs,
ext3-fs, ext3, and (native linux) EXT3. none of which work.


The above doesn't sound like any suse installer I've seen.

When you say "the installation program doesn't recognize the file system
for any of them", are these all existing file systems that you are
trying to preserve, and keep from being touched by the installer? If so,
how were these file systems created?

Your statement about telling the installer what file systems you have
doesn't make any sense. The installer has a menu of file systems, ext3
is one of those menu items, and only one. Can you explain what you meant
when you listed the various spellings and capitalizations of ext3 above?

Joe

I will use bold type for program reponse.

I will list step by step what I do and what happens

I have a disk with openSUSE-10.3-GM-DVD-i386 on it.

When I boot it I get the green splash screen, then I get the gray screen:

*Installation screen*
*initializing*
*language:* english us
click next
*media check* media checks ok
click next
check yes to agree to lic. agreement
click next
*system probe
installation mode
check update*
click next
*downloading
build repository, etc.
intializing package manager
evaluating root partition
select for update*
empty box
check show all partitions
select openSUSE 10.2 /dev/hdc3 i386 linux native (ext3) /
for updating
click next

Box with the following message:
*The partition /dev/hda4 could not be mounted
mount: you must specify filesystem type
if you are sure that the partition is not needed by the installation
click on continue

[Continue] [Specify file sytem type] [cancel]
*
click specify

another box * Mount Options *

*mount point : /boot
device : /dev/hda4
file system (empty for autodetection)
*
if I leave the file system box empty it returns to the prior box that
states the partition could not be mounted, etc.
The various spelling; i.e. EXT3, ext3, etc. are examples of what I
tried in the file sytem box in the Mount Options box.

Hope this clarifies what I said previously

Thanks again

Dave



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