USB Memory Stick

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: USB Memory Stick
started by: cesparks

Posted by cesparks on June 07 2005,01:23

I bought a 512M stick today to use with the DSL live cd.. I want to backup /home to it before I reboot and also for extensions .. I have searched all the archives .. guess my criteria was wrong

Posted by Guest on June 07 2005,03:06

First, boot DSL without the USB stick. Open an XTerminal, type "cat /etc/fstab", and take note of the list. Then plug the USB stick in (don't reboot), wait for about 15 seconds for the autodetection to finish, type "cat /etc/fstab" again and take note of what changed on the list. Normally this will be something like /dev/sda1 but it depends on your hardware. Whatever additional device that was added to the /etc/fstab will correspond to your USB stick. Use this device designation whenever you are prompted for the backup device.

Posted by meo on June 07 2005,21:35

Hi cesparks!

Connect your usb-drive and boot the cd-rom. After that just go to the menu and Apps --> Tools --> Dock Apps and click on mount.app. Just look there how your usb-drive is recognized (probably as sda1) and mount it.

Have fun,
meo

Posted by mounting usb in embedded dsl on July 28 2005,03:35

i tried cat /etc/fstab in dsl in embedded install and could not find the usb flash drive. How do i mount it in this mode?

Posted by Caspar_s on July 28 2005,19:05

Hmmm, embedded will not let you access your real drives.

Posted by matt on July 28 2005,22:00

Embedded will not let you mount drives? How do I get around this as it is a bit limiting.

Posted by cbagger01 on July 29 2005,04:19

When you are using DSL-embedded, you are running the DSL OS from inside the QEMU program.

The QEMU program creates a fake or "virtual" IBM PC computer inside a software window. This virtual computer is separate from your real PC, so it cannot easily access your REAL hardware (hard drives, USB devices, etc) when running from inside MS Windows.

There are ways around this.

One way is to create a network share on your Windows computer and then use either samba.dsl or the built-in smbclient program to connect to your Windows hard drive and then you can access the files that you wish.

See this thread for an example:

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