Cannot detect usb driveForum: USB booting Topic: Cannot detect usb drive started by: Tsaot Posted by Tsaot on Sep. 13 2005,02:45
I have used DSL before, so I'm not much of a noob, but I am having trouble installing the latest version to my pen-drive. What is happening is my laptop is not able to detect the usbdrive when I plug it in. I know I performed a step when installing 1.0 to get around this while booted up on the live cd, but for the life of me, I can't remember it. Does anyone know the (I believe two) command(s) needed to detect the drive?
Posted by Tsaot on Sep. 13 2005,03:14
kind of solving my own problem here, or half-way at least. I have tracked down at least one of the commands I used when installing 1.0 (a<tab><tab>, b<tab><tab>...) . The first was lsmod to check to see which modules I had running. Looking at the list, I remember needing usb-storage, usb-uhci, and usbcore, but i thought there mght be at least one more needed. I believe insmod was then used to load the missing programs. (Please bear with me here, I'm trying to remeber a now non-existant tutorial). the last command i haven't been able to rediscover, but I'll infom you when I find it.
Posted by Tsaot on Sep. 19 2005,18:31
Allrighty then, I'm totally lost. I can't for the life of me rember the command, so any insight might be usefull. Kind of as a background, the tutorial I'm trying to remember rans somewhat like this only a little wordier:1. Format drive 2. Use fdisk clone to make it bootable (I can't remrber name right now and I have no time to look it up) 3. use lsmod to check for components needed 4. start missing components 5. run command to scan/detect for the usb drive so I can mount the darn thing (No I'm not going to mount it, I just need the ability to) 6. run usb installer program NOTE: I just need step 5 I. If anybody can think of a similar command, let me know and I'll try it! thanks muchly. Posted by caheia on Sep. 22 2005,20:55
I have pretty much the same problem, I'm a n00b though.My lsusb list looks like this on the modules I need: usb-storage Posted by caheia on Sep. 22 2005,21:00
I have pretty much the same problem, I'm a n00b though.My lsusb list looks like this on the modules I need: usb-storage 61696 0 (unused) usb-uhci 21644 0 (unused) usbcore 57600 1 [hid usb-storage usb-uhci] Note: 1st column = Module, 2nd = Size, 3rd = Used by First of all, what does "hid usb-storage usb-uhci" mean, and second, how do I fix these things. I need help! Posted by Mehine2 on Sep. 24 2005,20:03
same here. I can Mount cd-rom and floppy drive but i can`t mount USB (mp3Player)
Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 24 2005,21:48
hid is the driver for USB (H)uman (I)nterface (D)evices like USB keyboards and USB miceusb-storage is the driver for USB Mass Storage Devices like pendrives, external USB hard drives, external CD/DVD drives, flash card readers, digital cameras, etc usb-uhci is the driver for the UHCI type USB controller cards. It is the driver for either your motherboard USB ports or a USB add-on card. Posted by andre5 on Sep. 26 2005,17:32
but how do you mount a USB hard drive? Do I have to change something in fstab?On my desktop with kanotix(debian) it automounts on /mnt/sda1. Posted by cbagger01 on Sep. 27 2005,04:27
To mount it in DSL, you do the following:Open the emelfm file manager. Navigate to the /mnt directory Right-Click on the "sda1" directory and choose "Mount" from the context menu. Posted by Kaso_da_Zmok on Sep. 27 2005,14:42
The same here, both centrino laptops unable to see /dev/sda1 :does not exist, tried 1.2 and 1.5 and wanted to install frugal to USB boot key, than tried from Ubuntu per hand, Copied the knoppix and /boot to /mnt/sda1 But i stuck on grub-install /dev/sda1 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 937 119935 83 Linux risko@ubuntux:/mnt/staging/boot/isolinux$ sudo grub-install /dev/sda /dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. Posted by Mr Green on Sep. 29 2005,08:30
Why not try
for example /dev/sda1 might be mounted on /mnt/usb .... HTH |