On 09-Aug-99 Michael Chopek wrote:
>>you will need to unmount them before you can eject them,
>>type
>>umount /mnt/whatever
>
> ...but then I could not get the CD out of the drive no how...
The drive won't eject while the CD is mounted.
> When I tried to use..
>
> unmount /mnt/cdrom
>
> I would get a message back from BASH saying something like..
>
> "unknown command - unmount"
The command is umount, not unmount. No n. :)
> I tried as both user and SU, and could not get the CD to open... :-/
>
> If I tried to click on the desktop icon, and right click to unmount..
> it said "device is busy" or some such error.
>
> What am I doing wrong....as I eventually wound up rebooting and then
> pulling the CD out when it started...not good for the penguin..I'm sure.
If you're getting 'device is busy', make sure there's nothing accessing the
drive you're trying to unmount. Usually when I get that message, it's because
I'm currently in the directory the device is mounted under in one of my
consoles or xterms--just cd to a different directory in that case.
-Tom
