USB booting :: sda1 = "Irregular" = cdrom? Argh...

You can't be too conformist. Or, wait... non-conformist? Sigh.

Anyway, once it loads, it's unmounted, and it stays that way. I figured out I can't use CDROM, because it's already in use (USB) and I can't use USB because it's irregular (and besides, it's mounted at /CDROM/).

Aw man... I just want to be able to boot from my USB and have my MyDSL set up. No, that's never enough... then, I'll want to burn a new distro once I have everything tweeked. But I can't do that because... CDROM can't be mounted bec... aw! :angry:

I'll keep looking. If anybody has any more ideas, please chime in!

Even the "/cdrom/" is mounted with the contents of the sda1, if you put a CD you can see it in "/mnt/cdrom".

If you put another usb device, it creates a new mount point, like sdb1 in /mnt/.

So you are able to work with CD's and other devices in USB

I hope this help you.

Onyarian

As root copy over the extensions to /cdrom
It is that easy. No further mounts are needed. So simple.
Then those extenions will auto load at boot time.

IE:

Choose "Emelfm as Super User" from the menu.

Quote (roberts @ Feb. 16 2006,12:20)

As root copy over the extensions to /cdrom
It is that easy. No further mounts are needed. So simple.
Then those extenions will auto load at boot time.

Well, I've got a half-way solution... I included some UCIs in the root of the USB stick, and they load into ram automatically when the system boots up.

I can't mount either the /cdrom/ or the /sda - mount just fails using the desktop mounter. I'll try it through console, but I think I tried that already and I don't remember it working -- but I didn't sudo it. That will be my next attempt, along w/ copying some MyDSL packages that I have on my HD. I'll boot up and see if I can see anything. Who knows, I may be back online w/ DSL in a few minutes.

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