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Posted: Feb. 25 2006,23:08 QUOTE

hopefully someone can help me out.  i wish to perform a pendrive HDD install from a dsl live cd.  i have a usb thumbdrive with one 976mb fat32 partition.  my first problem is i cannot get the usb drive mounted.  

the way i think it should work is i plug the usb drive in, it shows up as sda1 in the mount manager underneath the cpu stats thingy, i click the squigly line and it turns green, i right click the desktop choose tools - install dsl to pendrive - HDD, and follow on screen instructions.

when i plug in my usb drive it never shows up in the mount manager.  using Emelfm i cannot find anything that says sda(1,2,3...)  in /dev or /mnt, although there is a /pendrive file in /mnt.


because i cannot mount my usb drive i have not even made it to the installation part.  am i missing something, why isn't this working?

thank you for your time.
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Posted: Feb. 26 2006,21:10 QUOTE

Try plugging it in before bootup.

Also, look at your dmesg output, either from the command line, or from running the "System Stats" program in the DSL Right-Click menu.
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