usb mounting at /cdrom as read only

Forum: USB booting
Topic: usb mounting at /cdrom as read only
started by: fightie

Posted by fightie on Jan. 05 2006,21:16

I've been using DSL to basically carry around a persistent desktop with me wherever I go. I recently started using it on an Acer TravelMate 4150 that my school lends out to students. I can boot with the USB key, but while Tux is sitting in the corner of the screen (While it loads the scsi modules maybe?) the USB ports stop responding, so it cannot find a KNOPPIX image, and kicks out to the very limited shell. Grr... While using the expert boot, the USB works fine, except that then the USB key is mounted READ ONLY at /cdrom, so I cannot save anything I do. The backup fails on shutdown, since the USB is mounted as a read only file system. Can anybody help on this one?

Posted by cbagger01 on Jan. 06 2006,04:10

Does booting with the:

expert frugal

command work?

Posted by fightie on Jan. 06 2006,15:22

That worked perfectly... What exactly is frugal? it's not on the F2 boot page...

Posted by mikshaw on Jan. 06 2006,16:44

frugal tells DSL that you're running the system from a writeable device instead of a cdrom. This way it will allow you to write to the boot media, and you won't be prompted to remove a cd when you shutdown/reboot

Posted by Jake on Jan. 13 2006,23:08

unlike the above person, the expert frugal command doesnt work for me, with dsl 2.1 and a AVB 1GB Rugged FlashDrive. any ideas anyone?

Posted by roberts on Jan. 13 2006,23:22

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Posted by elWili on Jan. 16 2006,15:40

I have the same problem that this expert frugal does not do the trick.

I quess it actually does only same things as just booting with expert-option.

So the booting should be just writing in boot option screen "expert frugal"?

Now it asks a lots of questions, but they don't really apply for this problem itself.

I am running Acer Aspire 1353 laptop, with 128 USB pendrive (from bios it recognizes it as: OTi2168 Flash Disk-(USB)).

Hopefully someone can give some advices, because this prevents me of doing anything else, such as loading wlan drivers.