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zheungBinbin

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From: shanghai

Registered: 2012-12-16

Posts: 2

cant mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

hello,everybody
    I'm a beginner
    I want to install ArchLinux in my Dell notebook ,the sda1 had installed window xp,i want to make a dual system .
    I burn a Arch Linux ISO cd and enter the live system,then the questions are coming....
    After partitioning the drive by cfdisk tool,i cant mount the sda2 on the /mnt
    the error code list this :
        SQUASHFS error: Cant find  a SQUASHFS superblock on sda2
        EXT4-fs(sda2)     : cant find ext4 filesystem

What's meaning ? I have partition the drive like this .Please other Linuxer help me  or tell me how to solve this problem

                           cfdisk

name    flags    partType    fsType    size(MB)
----------------------------------------------------------
sda1                  Primary     ntfs         30000
sda2     Boot      Primary     Linux       100
sda3                   Primary     Linux       10000
sda5                   Logical    Linux swap  2000
sda6                   Logical      Linux        70000

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

Posts: 4,645

Re: cant mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

After you partitioned the drive, did you put filesystems on the partitions? Follow the steps in the Beginners' Guide, and use mkfs to put filesystems on the partitions. If sda2 is your boot partition, it's not the partition you want to mount at /mnt (you should mount your root partition there). Read the Guide.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners'_Guide

Last edited by 2ManyDogs (2012-12-16 04:48:46)

zheungBinbin

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From: shanghai

Registered: 2012-12-16

Posts: 2

Re: cant mount /dev/sda2 /mnt

thanks,i get it