Scott R. Every (scott@emji.net)
Mon, 10 Jan 2000 19:36:04 -0500
another thing to make sure of is that you are NOT in /boot when you try to
run:
umount /boot
s
--On Monday, January 10, 2000 7:30 PM -0500 "Scott R. Every"
<scott@emji.net> wrote:
> something is running from your /boot partition. send me the output from:
> ps -aux
>
> also send me an ls -la of your /boot
>
> s
>
> --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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>
>
>
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