Laptop Install error: mount point /mnt/gentoo does NOT exist

[cayenne]

Hello all,
I'm trying to put gentoo on a NEC versa p/75. I'm using the tomsrtbt boot disk. I"ve found my net card...I"ve repartitioned the drive....

hda1 for boot
hda1 = extended
hda5 = swap
hda6 = to be /

hda1 and hda6 are ext3. I'm at the point where I'm trying to create mkdir /mnt/gentoo
and mount it on /dev/hda6

I get this:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo

mount: mount point /mnt/gentoo does not exist

Any ideas on what's going on here? I've tried this without the -t ext3 option...same error message.....I"m stuck.....

TIA,

cayenne

ps. I posted this on the hardware and laptops section too...but, not many replies...moved over here since it was more of an install issue...

[lx]

Can't see anything wrong with that picture, is there something strange going on with the /mnt or /mnt/gentoo dir ( !!!! link !!!! ). Do ls -al /mnt/ it's probably linked or something. But you should have gotten an error doing mkdir /mnt/gentoo????

Hope you fix it,

Cya lX.
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[cayenne]

[lx]

[cayenne]

Thanks for the reply.

Ok with issuing the mount command I get:

/dev/ram0 on / type minix (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/ram3 on /tmp type minix (rw)

I started playing around...mkdir does not make a directory ANYWHERE...I tried on / and
other directories. It gives no error...but, does not seem to do anything.

I got a note from Tom that said:

"mkdir should be fine, maybe somehow it got mounted readonly?

It may be that it can only make 1 directory at a time and you
are specifying both of them?"

I'm not sure how anything got mounted readonly..doesn't seem to be...I chmod'ed / and /mnt to 777....

I've been trying to hold off on a reboot...but, running out of things to try...?? I just did the normal /.install.s with the tomsrtbt to make the boot floppy...until this point, it seemed to work fine..found my eth0...was able to manually get it config'ed...and wham, stuck on this which should be pretty straight forward I'd thing...

Any other suggestions I might could look at?

TIA,

C................................

[lx]

Maybe you should try to mount your harddisk in /mnt (not /mnt/gentoo), maybe somehow the ramdisk prevents you from creating files or something, I am not familiar with tomsrtbt.

check the mount using the mount command and.....

If this succeeds make a tempdir in /mnt, mount the cdrom/partition with tarfile in this tempdir cp the tar to /mnt ,... umount the tempdir and untar the copied tar in /mnt.

Grasping at staws here,

Cya lX.
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[lx]

just checked link in your previous post:

[rac]

Also if you've ever had Windows on these partitions, before, search the forums for "ghost and superblock" to see how to get rid of it fully. Failure to do so can cause things to get mounted read-only when you don't want that to happen, and all sorts of other confusing things.
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[bekenone]

mkdir /mnt/gentoo
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo
mount: mount point /mnt/gentoo does not exist

partition it with: mke2fs -j /dev/hda6
make your directory.
add your swap first then mount your / with: mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo
then the rest.

i did a whole install without any switches or deliberate filesystems

[Luder99]

Just a shot in the dark, but did you set permissions after bunzip2'ing the tarball? Maybe you don't have permission to mkdir.

I was having some weird problems when doing an install using tomsrtbt. Followed the directions (I must have glanced over the line) and bang, it worked!

Maybe that will help...
KP