Cannot umount CD (resource busy?)

[KOG]

Hi

It seems rather odd and puzzling situation

I am trying to install the second oracle CD for installation but I cannot umount the cd that is already in the driver so what should I do? I can't even open the CD driver too.

# umount /mnt/cdrom
umount: 0506-349 Cannot unmount /dev/cd0: The requested resource is busy.
#

Any suggestions many thanks

Cheers

KOG

 

[KOG]

Hi

I have figured it out it is cos I was running the CD within the cdrom filesystem i.e. /mnt/cdrom. How do I run it from another filesystem i.e. /opt/oracle to run Oracle Universal Installer from /mnt/cdrom filesystem?

Thanks

KOG

 

[nwardez]

Hi,

I had the same problem, cd'ing into the /mnt/cdrom/oracle directory and then launching installer program. Instead, try re-run it from your home directory (for example), specifying the whole path to the installer.

 

[KOG]

Hi nwardez,

What command do I use to run it from another path to the installer i.e. like run etc?

Cheers

 

[nwardez]

Oops, seems to be 2 fast for me ... (takes a long time, writing with only one finger

 

[KenCunningham]

The command will probably just be the full path to the installer, possibly preceded by a . (period/full stop)

I don't really see how this might help, given that you're still accessing the filesystem on the CD. A better bet might be to copy the installer to another filesystem and run it from there? HTH.

 

[nwardez]

Oh, my god, I'll soon need ViaVoice instead of a keyboard ...

So, you're in your home directory, and you type "/mnt/cdrom/oracle8i/runInstaller" (try to suppress oracle8i in this path if it doesn't work, I only have a Solaris version next to me and I'm not sure it's exactly the same as Aix one)

 

[admincff]

My collegue encoured th problem few hours ago.
It was just because he had abnother aixterm open on mount point .
Be sure there no other process accessing /mnt/cdrom with command :
fuser /mnt/cdrom

 

[KOG]

Many thanks for the all the inputs, I am still struggling

I am now in /opt/oracle directory and would like to run runInstaller on /mnt/cdrom filesystem how do I do that?

$ ./mnt/cdrom/runInstaller?

It failed, is there a similar command like run on AIX?

 

[nwardez]

Just remove the . at the beginning of your command line

(have a look at doc/relnotes.html, it's a known issue in the installation procedure)

 

[KOG]

It worked many thanks, it is amazing how much you learn from little things !

Cheers