Re: newbie: i am going crazy...

nanci_at_auroville.org.in
Date: 05/03/05 

Date: 3 May 2005 03:57:12 -0700

>You can't mount a distribution. You can only mount >filesystems.

.yes, sorry I meant a file system but i did not correct it...

>Try to delete what? If I interpret your words literally, >you're
trying
>to delete an entire distribution. I don't think the >people from
>Mandrake won't agree with that!

I am a Mandrake man myself and in fact I do not agree with deleting a
Mandrake distro! :-)

>Try unmounting /mnt/mdk first.

Thought it was umount ( without "n"...)
...I umounted and I get the most dreaded linux message " device is busy
"

>it's the default bash prompt.

Thanks, but why I do not get the normal prompt with my name after I
install? to change it with the PS1 is going to be OK?

Santo

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