Help installing to USB drive

Forum: USB booting
Topic: Help installing to USB drive
started by: be0wu1f

Posted by be0wu1f on Oct. 08 2005,14:18

When I try to install to a flash drive, it comes up with an error saying "Error mounting USB device"

What should I do/do differently?

Posted by pho3nix on Oct. 08 2005,15:41

First mount the usb device using

# mkdir /mnt/USB
# mount -t auto /dev/sda /mnt/USB

(depending on your device it may be sda1 or 2 etc)

then you can
# cd /mnt/USB

and
#mount -t iso9660 dsl-1.5..iso /mnt/USB -o loop

to mount DSL via local loopback if enabled

hope i've helped

Posted by pho3nix on Oct. 08 2005,15:45

disregard the last part I was assuming that DSL could be installed directly onto a USB drive but apparently not?

(Im visiting for the first time - guess I should keep quiet and learn...!)

Posted by be0wu1f on Oct. 09 2005,02:15

Thank you, that worked perfectly.

Posted by mangatono on Oct. 16 2005,09:46

HI, I hane DSL v1.2.1 ani it work´s NOT.

The problem is in mount -t auto .......
DSL writes : ilegal format........ I think.

Posted by Howitzer on Oct. 21 2005,17:30

I tried that, but it keeps bitching about Invalid Block Format..
I have NO clue what is wrong and ive been on this for 2 days now..