by It turns out that I figured out what the problem was. I had the software
in a directory called redhat on the disk that mounts as /home. (I
thought that this would be a safe place to put it.) But in looking
closer at the error messages in Alt-F3, I saw "device sda4 is already
mounted -- using symlink" "Failed to create symlink: /mnt//home: File
exists."
So, I then added another SCSI drive and mounted it "noauto" and copied
the redhat directory to it. I was then able to use that drive and to
install without a glitch.
I would hope that one "should" be able to use a partition that mounts as
/home (or as /usr). I thought that I could install off my jaz drive, but
I had it formated as a ext2 drive and the install insisted that any jaz
drive should be dos.
Hope this helps someone.
- John Layne