Search Members Help

» Welcome Guest
[ Log In :: Register ]

Mini-ITX Boards Sale, Fanless BareBones Mini-ITX, Bootable 1G DSL USBs, 533MHz Fanless PC <-- SALE $200 each!
Get The Official Damn Small Linux Book. DSL Market , Great VPS hosting provided by Tektonic
Pages: (2) </ [1] 2 >/

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

reply to topic new topic new poll
Topic: USB key destroyed by DSL installation< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
Ivdsangen Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4
Joined: Feb. 2007
Posted: Feb. 04 2007,14:11 QUOTE

I tried to install DSL from the live CD using the "Install to USB using USB-HDD" script. The script went through fine, but after rebooting DSL notified me that there was no Knoppix filesystem to be found. After I booted the live CD again I retried the installation, but it couldn't use the device anymore.

Now it seems I can't repartition the device. It comes up in the syslog under /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 and a command fdisk /dev/sda results in "Unable to open /dev/sda".

Have I destroyed something internally somehow or am I just looking over something insanely stupid?

Edit: mke2fs -j /dev/sda also fails miserably
Back to top
Profile PM 
roberts Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4983
Joined: Oct. 2003
Posted: Feb. 04 2007,15:51 QUOTE

Perhaps

sudo fdisk /dev/sda
Back to top
Profile PM WEB 
Ivdsangen Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4
Joined: Feb. 2007
Posted: Feb. 04 2007,16:52 QUOTE

I tried it as root already. It didn't work.
Back to top
Profile PM 
^thehatsrule^ Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 3275
Joined: July 2006
Posted: Feb. 04 2007,17:00 QUOTE

Did you try starting with a zero partition table?  i.e. sudo cfdisk -z /dev/sda

If it is still useless, then the USB device was probably going to die soon anyways.
Back to top
Profile PM 
Ivdsangen Offline





Group: Members
Posts: 4
Joined: Feb. 2007
Posted: Feb. 04 2007,17:25 QUOTE

That was worth a try, but it gives me a big fat "FATAL ERROR: Cannot open disk drive". I guess I will need to buy a new one tomorrow.
Back to top
Profile PM 
6 replies since Feb. 04 2007,14:11 < Next Oldest | Next Newest >

[ Track this topic :: Email this topic :: Print this topic ]

Pages: (2) </ [1] 2 >/
reply to topic new topic new poll
Quick Reply: USB key destroyed by DSL installation

Do you wish to enable your signature for this post?
Do you wish to enable emoticons for this post?
Track this topic
View All Emoticons
View iB Code