I gave it a try and it does seem to work now, thanks Alan,
Jeanette
----- Original Message -----
From: Alan Shoemaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 1999 4:25 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] File System not unmounting cleanly check forced
> Scott Miller wrote:
> >
> > Jeanette Russo wrote:
> > >
> > > After dealing with Linux problems for the last week on Mandrake 5.3 I
made
> > > the jump to Venus 6.0. I am starting to regret not reinstalling
Mandrake
> > > 5.3. Now I am dealing with more problems. Everytime I shutdown hda6
does
> > > not unmount (device busy). I know this is a bug. The Mandrake
updates does
> > > not work. Can someone tell me what I need to do to fix this keeping
in
> > > mind I am a newbie who is trying but is becoming very discouraged. If
> > > someone could guide me through the steps to fix this I think I can do
it.
> > > PLEASE.
> > > TIA,
> > > Jeanette
> >
> > Jeanette,
> >
> > I had many of the same problems you are experiencing with file systems
and
> > PPP connections dying until I installed all of the Mandrake 6.0 updates.
The
> > problem was that I could not get my PPP connection working until the
updates
> > were installed, so I could not download the updates from Linux using the
> > Mandrake Update utility, a catch 22. What I ended up doing was
downloading
> > the updates from Windows, then mounting the Windows partition from Linux
and
> > copying the update RPMs across to Linux and then installing them. After
that
> > I was able to configure everything and it all worked!
> >
> > Hope this helps. I'm a Linux newbie too ( been running Mandrake 6.0 for
> > about 3 weeks ) so maybe some others have more specific solutions for
you. I
> > was frustrated getting 6.0 installed too, but it's really great once you
get
> > everything working, so don't give up!
> > --
> > Scott Miller
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Running Linux Mandrake 6.0
>
> Jeanette....not long ago a contributer to one of these mdk support lists
> wrote that the KPPP supplied with 6.0 initializes the config file with a
> null for speed (even though the window in the GUI setup says 57600) and
> that this causes the connection to time out without anything happening.
> He said that to fix this just change the speed setting, save it, then if
> 57600 was what you wanted, go back and change it back to 57600. This
> made sense to me because I experienced the same symptoms and changed my
> setting to 115200 and that fixed my PPP connect problem (I've never
> changed mine back). I'll bet that it will fix yours too.
>
> Alan
>
