Dsl doesn't read my hard Drives?

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Dsl doesn't read my hard Drives?
started by: Dsl-Dan

Posted by Dsl-Dan on Jan. 30 2007,22:12

Hi everyone the Usb-boot is perfect but theres on thing I can't do and it's to see my hard drives. I can only see my Sda1 (Usb flash drive) I've made a Fat32 partision and I can't read it? how come... I can't see anything...

Posted by spock on Jan. 30 2007,22:23

Your post is not very clear. Do you mean you cannot mount your Fat 32 partition ? This would be odd.

DSL doesn't mount all partitions by default, so to see their content you have to manually mount them first. For example with the mount tool.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Jan. 30 2007,22:23

You need to mount it before you can use them.

Posted by Dsl-Dan on Jan. 30 2007,22:32

I mean that I cannot mount anything nor see my Hard Disk.

I tryed the Sudo Su and its Says permission denied or it doesn't exist. Even with my Fat32 Partition.

Could it be because my Hard Drives is a Serial Ata?

Posted by spock on Jan. 30 2007,23:10

The present version of DSL doesn't support SATA drives anymore. Here's more explanation :

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....hl=sata >

As stated there you could try DSL 2.1b.

Posted by humpty on Jan. 31 2007,14:03

DSL 2.1b works really well for me too, it supports more of my hardware than any other version. I've been using it for ages, unfortunately because it's old, it doesn't support .unc.
So you'll have to choose.