Installing from a hard disk partition.
I am trying to install version 8.0 on a laptop system from a partition on its hard disk drive (on which I have copied the content of the installation CD's). After setting up the various installation parameters (partitioning, software packages, language, etc.), the installation process fails with a message: "Could not mount the source medium. Mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /tmp/mnt busy. Mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is mounted on /var/adm/mount". I switch to a console (active at that time), issue a "mount -v" command and see that /dev/hda3 is mounted in two different mount points: /mounts/extra & /var/adm/mount. I am allowed to unmount the first mount point, the second, however, appears to be busy (obviously because the content of the installation directory - on the hard disk drive partition - is mounted there). I suppose this is a bug of the installation process. Does anybody know whether this can be resolved and how? Since SuSE Linux has been my beloved operating system for years, I really hate to say that installing Mandrake 8.2 was a no-brainer effort in the same context (installing from a hard disk drive partition)... Regards, -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (1.2.2) on SuSE Linux (8.0), Athens, GREECE, e-mail: my_suselinux@yahoo.gr, panosplaton@hotmail.com
Op woensdag 19 maart 2003 20:09, schreef Panos Platon Tsapralis:
I switch to a console (active at that time), issue a "mount -v" command and see that /dev/hda3 is mounted in two different mount points: /mounts/extra & /var/adm/mount. I am allowed to unmount the first mount point, the second, however, appears to be busy (obviously because the content of the installation directory - on the hard disk drive partition - is mounted there).
I suppose this is a bug of the installation process. Does anybody know whether this can be resolved and how?
Has been reported before... No solution untill now. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 21:37, Richard Bos wrote:
Has been reported before... No solution untill now.
Richard, thanks for the answer. Are you talking about 8.0 only? Is there any chance this is resolved in 8.1? -- Panos Platon Tsapralis, SAP-R/3 specialist, ABAP/4 developer, Registered Linux User #305894, Ximian Evolution (1.2.2) on SuSE Linux (8.0), Athens, GREECE, e-mail: my_suselinux@yahoo.gr, panosplaton@hotmail.com
Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 22:09, schreef Panos Platon Tsapralis:
Has been reported before... No solution untill now.
Richard, thanks for the answer. Are you talking about 8.0 only? Is there any chance this is resolved in 8.1?
Both, even worse it does not work (for me) in 7.3, 8.0 and 8.1. -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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