Hi, I'm having trouble installing Debian Lenny using a businesscard d-i CD snapshot for i386 architecture, retrieved on july 12, 2009 (MD5 d340d8f00012840febcfdc32c3528390) from http://www.fr.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/. (Here ends the gory details, thanks for your attention) Now for the funny part. Here is how I proceeded: - Chosen expert install in the boot menu - Proceeded to install, debian mirror ftp://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian - Partitionning hard drive : I chose "assisted partitionning" (i'm using the french translation, so sorry if titles do not exactly match) - Whole disk using LVM (it's a virtualbox VM) - /usr /var /home on separate partitions When trying to mke2fs on /home, it fails. The log says : "mke2fs [blah] /dev/mapper/debian-home is apparently in use by the system; will not make a filesystem here" Tried replacing ext3 with ReiserFS, same problem, with a slightly more useful error message : "reiserfs_create: could not open /dev/mapper/debian-home : Device or resource busy" Attached a tar.gz of the install/ log directory, if that can help. Please CC: to me for replies as i'm not on the list. Thanks for the great work anyway. Benoit Dubertret <benoit.dub@free.fr>
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