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Bazooka_Joe

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Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 14

Error installing 0.7 beta 2, cannot mount to /mnt, busy

Hello and thanks in advance for any help.  I'm trying to install 0.7 beta 2 on pentium3 machine with ultra160 scsi drive.  The CD boots fine and recognizes the scsi drive fine.  I create the partition, select the swap partition, select mount point, select reiserfs, select done, then when it tries to install the filesystem it says error mounting on /mnt.  From the console I can format the partition but when I try: mount /dev/discs/disc0/part2 /mnt with or without the -reiserfs switch it tells me the partition is busy even though I just finished formatting.  Any idea how to fix this?  Thanks.

Bazooka_Joe

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Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 14

Re: Error installing 0.7 beta 2, cannot mount to /mnt, busy

Ok I figured out the problem.  There's a problem in the installer with reiserfs.  I selected ext3 and it mounted fine.  Then I went to command line, umount'ed the partition, formatted with mkreiserfs, mounted again and all worked.

Father

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From: Australia

Registered: 2004-06-01

Posts: 209

Re: Error installing 0.7 beta 2, cannot mount to /mnt, busy

hmmm... i installed from the 0.7 beta2 a few days ago with reiserfs and it was fine? Albeit, on an IDE drive.

z4ziggy

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From: Israel

Registered: 2004-03-29

Posts: 573

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Re: Error installing 0.7 beta 2, cannot mount to /mnt, busy

i know what u talkin about - i had same problems with 0.6 version - could be its my sata drive, something i missed, or iono... in anyway, i solved it  exactly like u...

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Lugash

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Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 14

Re: Error installing 0.7 beta 2, cannot mount to /mnt, busy

Maybe you have to explicitly tell mount the FS-type: I noticed I couldn't mount an XFS partition eventhough the XFS-module was loaded.
When I explicitly mounted as XFS (mount -t xfs ...) it went fine.