Installation Disk Order Num

So I ordered a new installation disk the other day over the phone and they gave me an order number as well as sending me an email. I never recieved the email (I suppose I could have read off my email address wrong) and I'm not sure how to check my order with the order number. I guess it's not really that big of a deal, but I'm still curious...

I had the same problem.
Last week I installed Arch onto a new SATA HD. I wanted to make sure the installation worked before I attached the other drives. On booting with the other drives attached, similar messages.
My solution:
Login as root.
Follow the instruction to mount / as read-write so you can make changes to the filesystem.
edit /etc/fstab and eliminate the references to /dev/sdxx and replace them with UUIDs or labels (as suggested above) as these won't change.
in /etc/fstab ...
# external data sources
#data /dev/sdb6
UUID=931d7107-1241-4d82-ad28-fcbe7af8ba69 /data ext3 defaults 0 0
#Documents /dev/sda9
/dev/disk/by-label/Documents /data/Documents ext3 defaults 0 0
Reboot and you should be good.
You can find the UUID of the drives by using
$ blkid
or you can set a drive label with e2label, assuming you are using ext2,3 or 4
Good luck.

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Hi Chris and welcome to Discussions,
what exactly is the error message you get when you try the "Format C: /FS:FAT32" command ?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1722
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Call Apple with your machines serial number/model name located under the Apple Menu > About This Mac > More Info.
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Natalia Khlopina

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3. From the'File' menu choose "New -> Disk Image from disk 3s3 (Mac OS X Install DVD)
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Adam Rickets wrote:
Thanks again - I had suspected the DVD media as I have tried to use cheaper brands before.
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Any suggestions on how to fix this?

I had the same problem.
Last week I installed Arch onto a new SATA HD. I wanted to make sure the installation worked before I attached the other drives. On booting with the other drives attached, similar messages.
My solution:
Login as root.
Follow the instruction to mount / as read-write so you can make changes to the filesystem.
edit /etc/fstab and eliminate the references to /dev/sdxx and replace them with UUIDs or labels (as suggested above) as these won't change.
in /etc/fstab ...
# external data sources
#data /dev/sdb6
UUID=931d7107-1241-4d82-ad28-fcbe7af8ba69 /data ext3 defaults 0 0
#Documents /dev/sda9
/dev/disk/by-label/Documents /data/Documents ext3 defaults 0 0
Reboot and you should be good.
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Whaddya think? Can I live happily with only disk 1 or do I really need disk 2? (What's on disk 2 BTW?)

tjk wrote:
AnonyMouse wrote:
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