Is it possible to mount the USB Drive

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Is it possible to mount the USB Drive
started by: jhoff80

Posted by jhoff80 on April 03 2005,07:08

I now got DSL to boot correctly using the toram setting. Is it possible to mount the same USB drive to read all of my files saved on there in the root directory of the drive? (In other words I want to read the files that I save on my USB drive using Windows).

Posted by tronik on April 03 2005,13:38

yes. it is possible.

mount /dev/device /mnt/mntpoint

'man mount' for more info.

in DSL its actually possible to just type 'mount /dev/device' and not a mountpoint.

what is your device? i dont know. its wherever it says it is booting from when you startup, such as /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1.

you should be able to use the mount-app slit in fluxbox (on the bottom right of your screen) to mount anything that it detects.

enjoy.

Posted by jhoff80 on April 03 2005,19:34

Thanks but I understand that already. Its just that when I try to mount the USB drive (sda1) that DSL is booting off of, it pops up the error message that it isn't ready or that its in use. I thought since DSL booted of the ramdrive (i'm using the toram mode), it should be able to be mounted.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 04 2005,03:31

Try this:

Open up Emelfm file manager

Go to the /mnt directory

Right click on the sda1 directory and choose "Mount" from the menu.

Posted by cbagger01 on April 04 2005,03:32

Also, if you are booting from the USB drive you should boot with:

dsl toram frugal

This might help.

Posted by jhoff80 on April 04 2005,06:03

thank you. that last piece of information (about using dsl toram frugal) was what i needed to get it to work.

Posted by dienben on April 06 2005,17:17

Hello,

Sorry to bother you, but i have the same problem and don't understand your answer.

I boot from the CD, no problem. I have access to all my hard drive.

Then i put my USB drive, goto Emelfm and try to mount sda1 (or 2,3 or 4), i right click and mount... but the answer is: /dev/sdaX(1,2,3,4) is not a valid block device

I use Windows for put files on my USB (perhaps it's stupid to say that).

Thanks for yourr time,

Dienben