Zhengguo Xu wrote: > > I'm a completely Linux newbie. I've been reading some Linux guide for > some time now and I thought I should give a try. So I downloaded > Debian Etch daily builds (17-09-2006) netinstall cd and tried a > dual-boot installation on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. I was able to > boot and see nice GNOME desktop but there're a few problems. > > For the hard disk partition I have > > C:\ 50GB with Windows XP professional NTF > > D:\ 30GB Debian EXT3 > > E:\15GB FAT32 (intended to share this place with windows) > > F:\1GB SWAP > > > *Problem details:* > > with "install litaba.atapi_enabled=1"in commandline, installation run > smothly and i entered GNOME desktop. However, when I doubled clicked > "Computer" button and everything froze. After a while all 3 desktop > icons disappeared. As I said, I'm pretty new to this system, I grabed > some guide book tried to mount /dev/sda5 in BASH shell but was told it > was already mounted. typed "cat /dev/fstab" and I found this: > > <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > > /dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults, error=remount-ro 0 > 1 > > /dev/sda7 none swap sw 0 0 > > /dev/scd0 /nedia/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user, noauto 0 0 > > > so I "umount /dev/sda5", several times, and all I had is two lines > repeated "umount : / : device is busy". > > how should I do to solve this problem?
Are you asking how do you solve the problem of the freezing, or the problem of not being able to unmount /? You can't unmount / while the system is "up"; you could boot off a live CD (like Knoppix, etc), and have an unmounted / (on the hard drive, not Knoppix), but I'm unsure why you're trying to unmount /. (I assume the "/nedia/cdrom0" above is a typo.) If you're asking about the freezing, I'm unsure what's causing that; we don't have enough details. What I would recommend though is to stay out of X (stay in command mode - "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" or similar) for a little while and see if the freezing happens there. If not, it's probably related to X and/or Gnome, so I'd then start X with a simpler environment, such as twm or icewm. If no freeze there, I'd suspect Gnome. Etc. > Also, I have E: partition 15GB, FAT32 file system, intended to used it > for data backup but I could mount it. How should I do? You can mount it manually with something like "mount /dev/sda6 /home/shuanghe/SharedWinPartition", but you'll need some extra parameters for handling file permissions, etc; probably you want to create the appropriate entry in "/etc/fstab" for it; Google should have lots of examples. > Last problem: when I click to shutdown the system, it froze and I was > force to push power button to shut it down. BTW, I was still able to > boot windows XP after all this. Again, I'd do the same process I mentioned above. Take X out of the picture; is it still freezing? And so on. -- Kent West Westing Peacefully <http://kentwest.blogspot.com> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
