USB question

Forum: USB booting
Topic: USB question
started by: novaforme

Posted by novaforme on Aug. 29 2005,05:14

Ive already burned DSL.ISO to cdrom
booted the cdrom
right clicked the desktop
found where it says install to usbhdd and clicked it

im stumped when it ask for the name of the device, it assumes the usb device is located under /dev and when i go search for it i find alot of other folders located under /dev. my question is which folder in really my usb drive. an i doing this right?

Posted by novaforme on Aug. 29 2005,12:20

anyone?

Posted by adssse on Aug. 29 2005,14:22

Your usb drive will usually be sda1, so the device is /dev/sda1 and would mount to /mnt/sda1.
When you first boot up run in a shell 'cat /etc/fstab' and take note of the drives. Then plug in your flash drive and wait about 20 seconds for it to recognize it and run 'cat /etc/fstab' again and take note of the difference, this should be your usb drive.
In my experiences I have found that sometimes the first time it is recognized as sda. If it says sda instead of sda1, I have found that I needed to unplug the drive, wait and than plug it in again wait about 20 seconds for it to recognize and 'cat /etc/fstab' and than I usually see that it is recognized as sda1 and I can use it normally.

Hope this helps you out some.

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 29 2005,16:29

Your DEVICE name is usually sda

The script will create a data partition on this drive called sda1.

But when prompted for the device name, it should be something like sda sdb sdc etc.

See the WIKI for more details:

< http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/USB_Booting >