AREA:COMP.OS.LINUX
From: hlu@eecs.wsu.edu (HJ Lu)
Organization: School of EECS, Washington State University

In article <paul_r.733099657@bruny>, paul_r@bruny.cc.utas.edu.au (Paul Roberts)
writes:
|> I am trying to install linux on a machine, and I have created a 15M
minix/linux
|> partition.  I have also created a 4M swap file.  I have created the
minixfile
|> system on /dev/hda2 using the numbers of blocks reported by fdisk
|> and the typed 'doinstall /dev/hda2'.  doinstall prints MINIX-fs magic number
|> failed (or something like this) and then prints mount : unknow error 26240
|> Anyone got any ideas as to  what I am doing wrong.  Also I am using SLS
|> 0.99p2-55 which I got from kirk.bu.oz.au
|>

Please get Rick's mount 0.99.6. Peter, have you updated SLS's mount?
The new mount will tell you what is really wrong instead of
"mount: error 26240".


H.J.