Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk
Title: Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk
Sorry for the repost. Replied to digest by accident. Thought better to keep it in the thread.
Hi Andreas,
on 1/1/05 5:18 AM, debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org at debian-user-digest-request@lists.debian.org wrote:
From: Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com>
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:05:14 +0100
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: sarge install problem: read-only disk
Hello
jon salenger (<salenger@sbcglobal.net>) wrote:
> I'm working on an install, and I could use a bit of help/advice if
> anyone can and is willing:
>
> I'm doing a daily businesscard install (20041231). The installer finds
> DHCP and runs perfectly up to the base system install and reboot.
>
> At that point I choose packages (in this case, the default 'desktop'
> packages) and download seems to run fine. However, when the packages
> begin to unpack and install, I get an error that the disk is
> read-only.
>
> Does anyone know what might be the cause, and how I could work around
> the problem?
What does the output of mount and df say? Is the partition mounted
read-only? Is it full maybe?
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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I'll only send the output for hdc (the ide drive I'm installing to) since that seems to be the only applicable info, and I'm writing this by hand rather than sending a df > file. Note that this info is from a subsequent knoppix hd install, which works until I get my debian install in place. I should also note that experimenting with apt-get, apt-get upgrade from the knoppix install returned similar read-only errors.
mount:
/dev/hdc1 on / type ext3 (rw, errors=remount-ro)
df:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdc1 6728376 2196740 418952 35% /
As far as the output from mount, I had seen earlier that the drive was set to remount as read-only on errors, but from a glance at google, this seemed like the standard. Perhaps though, there was some previous error (that I missed in the text scroll) that caused the volume to remount-ro?
(By the way, thanks for the mount command. Previously I was doing cat /etc/mtab. I'm still pretty new to *nix. ;P)
My best and thanks for the assistance,
Jon
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