On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 09:43 -0800, Les wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 16:55 +0100, François Patte wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > I try to install FC6. > > > > I made some LVM partitionning from FC4 before (I have several disks and > > want to keep FC4 as long as FC6 is not fully configurated...) > > > > I booted on the fc6-dvd, came accross the manual partionning (accepted), > > then up to the sceen: "reading informations for installation" no > > problems and suddenly an ununderstable message for me: > > > > "an error occured while unmounting CD-ROM (why does it want to unmount > > the dvd?....) *check if you do not access /mnt/source from shell* on > > tty2, then click OK to retry" > > > > well, well, well > > > > I think tty2 is on Ctrl-Alt F2; gone there and saw a shell prompt: > > > > # df > > > > /mnt/dev > > /mnt/source > > ..... > > > > tried to umount manually /mnt/source > > > > #umount /mnt/source > > > > answer: /mnt/source: no such a file or directory!!!!! > > > > #ls /mnt > > > > ... source .... > > > > What shall I do? > > > > Thank for replies > > > Hi, Francois, > I noticed that the shell prompt shows the '#'. This typically means it > is a superuser. You didn't show the directory of the shell, so could it > be in the directory of /mnt, or one of the mount points, thus showing > the partition as busy? I would guess that the superuser might be > anywhere in the system, as there is no restriction to prevent that. > Try just cd to move to the superuser's home directory, and check which > drive that resides on. If it is clear of the unit you are partitioning, > you should be all set. If not, you may be attempting to repartition the > system disk, and I would think you would need to boot from some other > location to do that. OOPS, my bad, I misread your question. I see you are installing from DVD and have booted it. Change my response to: Did you check the media? I had a similar problem, but the first CD I made failed the media check. I burned a new disk, and all was good. Regards, Les H
