/dev/sda1 apparently is in use

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Vu Pham wrote:
> 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

I very much doubt that.  Every USB disk I've ever used in the past 2 years 
is treated like a normal SCSI drive.  I think you're confusing /dev/sda 
which is the USB drive with /dev/sdb, which is your HDD.


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