[plug] Mandrake 7.1 upgrade

[bburns at erggroup.com]

Steve G Wrote:

> It seems that the umount that runs on the install disk doesn't understand
> these options, or I typed in the wrong ones.  I think the former - suspect
> it's running a non standard umount command (WHY???)

> Are you running Debian slink?
No - Mandrake 7.1 (on the machine in question!)...


> From man umount:

> -f     Force unmount (in case of an unreachable NFS  system).   (Requires
>              kernel 2.1.116 or later.)

Yeah - thats what I typed 'umount -f $DEVICE' and 'umount --force $DEVICE'...
Of course $DEVICE was not an NFS system but the CDROM drive!

Keep em coming :)

Cheers,
Ben


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