cannot mount usb drive, cannot installForum: USB booting Topic: cannot mount usb drive, cannot install started by: mogen317 Posted by mogen317 on Feb. 25 2006,23:08
hopefully someone can help me out. i wish to perform a pendrive HDD install from a dsl live cd. i have a usb thumbdrive with one 976mb fat32 partition. my first problem is i cannot get the usb drive mounted. the way i think it should work is i plug the usb drive in, it shows up as sda1 in the mount manager underneath the cpu stats thingy, i click the squigly line and it turns green, i right click the desktop choose tools - install dsl to pendrive - HDD, and follow on screen instructions. when i plug in my usb drive it never shows up in the mount manager. using Emelfm i cannot find anything that says sda(1,2,3...) in /dev or /mnt, although there is a /pendrive file in /mnt. because i cannot mount my usb drive i have not even made it to the installation part. am i missing something, why isn't this working? thank you for your time. Posted by cbagger01 on Feb. 26 2006,21:10
Try plugging it in before bootup.Also, look at your dmesg output, either from the command line, or from running the "System Stats" program in the DSL Right-Click menu. |