Re: Dell Ispiron with Etch netinst 17092006
Zhengguo Xu wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> 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?
Are you asking how do you solve the problem of the freezing, or the
problem of not being able to unmount /?
You can't unmount / while the system is "up"; you could boot off a live
CD (like Knoppix, etc), and have an unmounted / (on the hard drive, not
Knoppix), but I'm unsure why you're trying to unmount /.
(I assume the "/nedia/cdrom0" above is a typo.)
If you're asking about the freezing, I'm unsure what's causing that; we
don't have enough details. What I would recommend though is to stay out
of X (stay in command mode - "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" or similar) for a
little while and see if the freezing happens there. If not, it's
probably related to X and/or Gnome, so I'd then start X with a simpler
environment, such as twm or icewm. If no freeze there, I'd suspect
Gnome. Etc.
> 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?
You can mount it manually with something like "mount /dev/sda6
/home/shuanghe/SharedWinPartition", but you'll need some extra
parameters for handling file permissions, etc; probably you want to
create the appropriate entry in "/etc/fstab" for it; Google should have
lots of examples.
> 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.
Again, I'd do the same process I mentioned above. Take X out of the
picture; is it still freezing? And so on.
--
Kent West
Westing Peacefully <http://kentwest.blogspot.com>
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