[StAndrews and Fife LUG] Fwd: newbie

[David Tillotson]

In message <1051694980.3eaf9784a8923@webmail.unpapillon.com>, Stuart 
Anderson <stuart@nx14.com> writes
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>I tried to put Mandrake 9.1 on, but I was told that I was low on
>resources. In the process of loading, it would not eject the first disc
>to put in the second disc etc.

Not encountered that one myself - but then I cheated and did a net 
install last of MDK9.1 (heartily recommended if you have the bandwidth!)
Looks like something is refusing to allow the disc to be umounted. I'd 
suggest switching to the root mini console (Ctrl-Alt-F3 IIRC), and 
trying to manually umount it. IF the device is reported as busy, see if 
lsof is available, and if not, checking the process tree for anything 
that's obvious running from the CD.
For a Q'n'D fix, temporarily adding a second CD drive to the system 
should work fine. Just remove it once you have the system successfully 
installed (kudzu /should/ clean up the remnants.)

>I am running only linux on this machine. Despite the fact that this is
>an older version of linux, I am still enjoying learning what it can do.

Quite a good move IMHO - The only reason I have Windows on this box is 
convenience for the rest of the family (at least until Wine can handle 
all the littlun's games and the OU software!)

HTH
-- 
David Tillotson