Problems with Linux booting..

[aura2]

ok i was reading this tutorial found
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=260337
I downloaded knoppix, kanotix, and trinux(on my XP box) as boot up disks and started each of them up and when i try to access my hardrive i get this:

mount /mnt/hda1

it gives me the error

can't find /mnt/hda1 in etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

I have tried a few other things like booting knoppix26 acpi=off and noapic, but i still get the same result.
Any suggestions on how to fix this problem?

[MrLinus]

Hi there, I've renamed your thread to better reflect what the issue is. What kind of hardware setup do you have (SCSI, IDE)?

Additionally the command should be mount <device source> <mountpoint> (<mountpoint> being the place you want to mount it to such as / ) so in this case you might want to try mount /dev/hda1 /

[aura2]

when i do the mount /dev/hda1 i get
/dev/hda or hda1 is not a valid block device
And as far as hardware i have SCSI

[MrLinus]

Then you need to reference it as a scsi device rather than IDE. So try mount /dev/sda1 /

[aura2]

When i do sda or sda1, i get the same error as i did with hda, it isnt a valid block device

[MrLinus]

Well sda1 would stand for first scsi device, first partition on that scsi device. Without knowing how you have it partitioned (with Windows and what other SCSI devices are present) I can only guess the options. So, potentially try:

mount /dev/sda2 /

mount /dev/sdb1 /

mount /dev/sdc1 /

Might also want to do a cat /etc/fstab and paste the results here so we can see what it is that you have on your sytem (if anything)

[aura2]

when i did each of those mounts, same error occurs as before.
and cat /etc/fstab got me this:

/proc      /proc       proc   defaults            0 0

/sys       /sys        sysfs  noauto              0 0

/dev/pts   /dev/pts    devpts mode=0622           0 0

/dev/fd0   /mnt/auto/floppy auto   user,noauto,exec,umask=000    0 0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom  auto   user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0

/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1  auto   users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0

# Added by KNOPPIX

   noauto,users,exec 0 0

[MrLinus]

Hrmm... How many harddrives does this system have that you're booting your Knoppix on?

Ok. Let's try this:

fdisk /dev/hda or fdisk /dev/sda

Then press p (this should display the partition setup of the drive in question; copy and paste results to the thread)

Then press q to exit fdisk

[aura2]

i only have 1 hardrive and when i tried to do
fdisk /dev/hda or fdisk /dev/sda
i get
unable to open /dev/sda or hda
i went through these just to make sure
sda/sdb/sdc/hda/hdb/hdc
but the same error came up

[MrLinus]

Hrmm... Beginning to think you may have a setup that isn't necessarily supported by Knoppix. What kind of SCSI card is it and what kind of machine is it?