Avoid Partitioning Problems When Installing Linux from an Installation Source

Novell Cool Solutions: Tip
By Aaron Gresko

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When installing from an installation source, problems can occur caused by the boot media used to start the installation. For example, booting a system with a SLES 9 CD and then trying to install SUSE Pro 9.3 from an installation server will result in the following error:



The inability to mount the partition is caused by not booting off the proper media. The problem will occur whenever the boot media is significantly different from the installation source media. The best policy for avoiding problems is to always boot a system with the first CD from the distribution that is being installed.

Reader Comments

• Seems pretty obvious to me but maybe I just don't like mixing versions anyway.
• I'm not sure the error is just because you switched from SLES9 to SUSEpro media. That in itself will cause problems when the installer looks at the info file for packages. More than likely the above error is because the correct SCSI driver is not in the initrd image on the boot media

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