Scott R. Every (scott@emji.net)
Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:30:14 -0500
something is running from your /boot partition. send me the output from:
ps -aux
also send me an ls -la of your /boot
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--On Monday, January 10, 2000 4:11 PM -0800 Lefty <lefty@apple.com> wrote:
> I'm also having some difficulties getting YDL installed on a Network
> Server 700.
>
> After several false starts, I've gotten things to the point where I have
> installed the YDL LINUX distribution, and booted into LINUX from the
> floppy drive. I'm currently stuck at reconfiguring the machine to boot
> off the hard disk, and I'm not at all sure where I'm wrong.
>
> I'm still in "Maintenance Mode", I've logged in as root. I've set up my
> hard disk partitions as described at
>
> ftp://ftp.emji.net/pub/ans/README.html
>
> So, I'm on "step 7", and trying to set up the system so that it will boot
> off the hard disk, but when I try to issue the command
>
> mke2fs /dev/sda2
>
> I get an error message as follows
>
> /dev/sda2 is mounted; will not make a file system here!
>
> I can't unmount the partition (umount tells me that the device is busy),
> and I'm frankly a little lost at this point. Any ideas?
>
> --
> David "Lefty" Schlesinger <lefty@apple.com>
> Manager/Systems Defenestrator, Mac OS Networking
> Apple Computer, Inc.
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-- Scott R. Every - mailto:scott@emji.net EMJ Internet - http://www.emji.net voice : 1-888-258-8959 fax : 1-919-363-4425
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