Dell Ispiron with Etch netinst 17092006

["Zhengguo Xu" <tworiversfolk@gmail.com>]

Hi guys,

I'm a completely Linux newbie. I've been reading some Linux guide for some time now and I thought I should give a try. So I downloaded Debian Etch daily builds (17-09-2006) netinstall cd and tried a dual-boot installation on my Dell Inspiron 9300 laptop. I was able to boot and see nice GNOME desktop but there're a few problems.

Here's the list of my main hardwares:

Intel Pentium M 780 2.26GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 533 MHz FSB

2048 MB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM (2 x 1024)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 256MB PCI-Express

100GB 7200rpm IDE Hard Drive

8X SONY DVD +/- RW

Intel ProWireless 2200 802.11b/g Mini PCI Wireless LAN Card

17" UltraSharp Wide Screen WUXGA 1900 x 1200 with TrueLife

BlueTooth

 
For the hard disk partition I have

C:\ 50GB with Windows XP professional NTF

D:\ 30GB Debian EXT3

E:\15GB FAT32 (intended to share this place with windows)

F:\1GB SWAP

Problem details:

with "install litaba.atapi_enabled=1"in commandline, installation run smothly and i entered GNOME desktop. However, when I doubled clicked "Computer" button and everything froze. After a while all 3 desktop icons disappeared. As I said, I'm pretty new to this system, I grabed some guide book tried to mount /dev/sda5 in BASH shell but was told it was already mounted. typed "cat /dev/fstab" and I found this:

<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc              /proc               proc      defaults      0          0

/dev/sda5       /         ext3        defaults, error=remount-ro     0    1

/dev/sda7      none    swap        sw               0         0

/dev/scd0      /nedia/cdrom0       udf,iso9660 user, noauto      0  0

so I "umount /dev/sda5", several times, and all I had is two lines repeated "umount : / : device is busy".

how should I do to solve this problem?

Also, I have E: partition 15GB, FAT32 file system, intended to used it for data backup but I could mount it. How should I do?

Last problem: when I click to shutdown the system, it froze and I was force to push power button to shut it down. BTW, I was still able to boot windows XP after all this.

Thanks.

Shuanghe