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.
