[Sunhelp] dd: ... open: Device busy

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Nov 27, 1999 at 11:02:45AM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> I was about to try to install linux on my SS20 again, and figured that
> perhaps my PC wasn't creating the floppy just the way that the sun wanted
> it, so I'd try to create the boot diskette from the sun.  When I try running
> a command like 'dd if=ramdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k' it complains that
> the device is busy.  I've checked, and it's not mounted anywhere, but I
> still can't make it write to the floppy.  What am I missing?  Thanks,
> 	Greg

Turn off volume manager ("/etc/rc2.d/S92volmgt stop", as root) and then
try it again....

Bill

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