On Sat, Sep 28, 2002 at 08:12:50AM -0700, Henry House wrote: > Issac: I am forwarding your message to LUGOD's Vox-tech mailing list. Have > you checked for information on Gentoo's website? Is /dev/hda3 in fact already > in use?
There didn't seem to be anything about this on Gentoo's site. The device /dev/hda3 was already in use, since it's mounted as / . Trying umount / (probably not wise) also tells me "device is busy". Issac > ----- Forwarded message from Issac Trotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- > > Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 15:43:20 -0700 > From: Issac Trotts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [lugod lert] gentoo newbie questions > > I'm hoping to install gentoo on my Sony VAIO pcg-fx120 laptop, currently > running Suse 7.2. The online installation instructions say that the > easiest way to install is to mount the partition you want to install in > as /mnt/gentoo. But I can't do this: > > > mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo > mount: /dev/hda3 already mounted or /mnt/gentoo busy > mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda3 is mounted on / > > Can you tell me how to do this or where to find more beginner-oriented > gentoo install instructions that don't assume I know how to do things like > this, or both? > > Thanks! > > -- > Issac Trotts > > www.issactrotts.net > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > Henry House > The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> > for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>. -- Issac Trotts www.issactrotts.net _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
