/dev/sda1 apparently is in use

[Vu Pham]

On Tue, 2007-05-29 at 09:59 -0500, Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> > When installing Suse 10.2 onto a new system, after creating the
> > partitions, the installation comes to the step to format the partitions,
> > I get the error that /dev/sda1 is apparently in use and the installation
> > stops.
> >
> > Moving another drive already installed Suse 10.2 to this system, it
> > boots just fine.
> >
> > Moving the first drive to another system, the installation goes without
> > any error.
> >
> > The motherboard of the new system is Intel Desktop D765XBX2; its BIOS
> > was flashed to the latest one 05/23/07.
> 
> Are you able to delete all partitions off of /dev/sda ?  Are you sure that 
> /dev/sda is your harddisk and not hte CDROM drive?
> 
Yes. I could manually fdisk /dev/sda, delete the created partitions,
save new configuration, then add new partitions again, and save them
without any error. 

I use an external USB DVD drive and its device is /dev/sr0 or something
like that but definitely not /dev/sda

Vu