hi guys, i currently have ubuntu 9 on my pc, and im trying to install from the live cd i downloaded yesterday, i can get as far as the partitioning and begining of install, but as soon as it seems to install, i get an error saying, unable to install on mounted device, unmount bla bla, i dont want to install on my cd because it already has the opensuse on it lol, i want to delete my ubuntu installation and replace with opensuse… quite simple but to hard for me to work out.
anyone know how to fix? cheers
for a bit more info the error i get is
Error
Failure occurred during the following action:
Deleting partition /dev/sda1
System error code was: -1014
another error i think has something to do with it, before i can even start the install, yast gives me an error saying
yast detected a mounted removable media. yast cannot install the system on media which is mounted.
to install the system on these media, unmount them first.
i cant take the cd out because the suse is running from the cd, i want to install to the freakin hard drive!!!
If on the LiveCd mode:
open konsole/ terminal
execute:
cat /proc/mounts
to see where and how your hdd is mounted
To unmount it use:
sudo umount -l /dev/sda1
or any other way(s) your hard is mounted.
Do not unmount other.
Hope it installs now.
unfortunatly this did not work, i get a slightly different error (3008) still saying that it is mounted and cannot make a file system here, but why is my harddrive mounted?! does it have something to do with the current harddrive installation of ubuntu? i tried the terminal for deleting the partition but it did absolutly nothing, it didnt delete any partitions when i specified it to
ok sorry about the multiple posts, but im doing this on the fly, i thought id step outside the square and login to the ubuntu install, and unmount it, as i think the reason i cant install suse is because of this. i tried to unmount ubuntu but it says it cant because its busy, but i cant delete the partition of ubuntu BECAUSE ITS BUSY im officialy out of ideas and frustrated 
while in the live CD type in terminal :
cat /etc/mtab
It should show you what is actually mounted.
When you are in the live CD, DO NOT click partitions shown in th device notifier. They will be mounted otherwise.
i cant understand any of the outputted text from that command, but i think what i have to ultimatly do is get rid of ubuntu completly and start fresh, best way to do that? without having to download software etc?
also, i dont think sda1 with ubuntu is mounted, but opensuse still cant remove the partition of it…
Have you tried using YaST partitioner when using the live CD ? You could delete those partitions from there.
But i still don’t understand what is different with Your PC and others. When using live CD’s partitions don’t get mounted until the installation starts.
You restart the PC, boot from the live CD and off we go.
Just out of curiosity, type fdisk -l in konsole (as root) when running live CD ?
oky doky i managed to figure it out. thanks all for the help