Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-08 Thread Stephen Allen
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:04:50AM -0700, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine, and the installer is also working correctly. Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help. Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer Co. :-) If you have the

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-03-01 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Finally, my USB pendrive is working, i.e. booting fine, and the installer is also working correctly. Thanks Adrian and Thierry for your help. Time to dive a little deeper into debian-installer Co. :-) Regards, Santanu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Adrian Levi
On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Everybody, I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: o Formatted my pen drive as a single 2GB FAT16 partition (/dev/sdb) o Did a # syslinux -sf /dev/sdb

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM, Adrian Levi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I try to boot from the pendrive, it boots just fine, and the installer starts OK. But then, it cannot find the cdrom. Thats OK, because there is

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:20 PM, Thierry Chatelet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 29 February 2008 07:15, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Hello Everybody, I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: Why don't you follow

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 29 February 2008 07:15, Santanu Chatterjee wrote: Hello Everybody, I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: Thanks in advance for your help. Regards, Santanu Why don't you follow what is said there: http://d

Re: Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-29 Thread Adrian Levi
On 29/02/2008, Santanu Chatterjee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Snipped Now, you said pointing the installer to the local repository. How exactly is this done? When the cdrom detection failed, at a console, I found a directory named '/cdrom' already created (empty). I linked this directory so

Installing Debian from USB pen drive

2008-02-28 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
Hello Everybody, I was trying to install a very basic debian system from my 2GB USB Pen Drive. For that, I did the following: o Formatted my pen drive as a single 2GB FAT16 partition (/dev/sdb) o Did a # syslinux -sf /dev/sdb to make it bootable o Downloaded http://cdimage.debian.org/debian

cannot mount usb pen drive

2007-07-04 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Hi, from some time ago I cannot mount any usb pen drive... The kernel log shows: Jul 4 12:20:04 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 24 Jul 4 12:20:04 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jul 4 12:20:04 localhost kernel

Re: cannot mount usb pen drive

2007-07-04 Thread Roby
Miguel J. Jiménez wrote: Hi, from some time ago I cannot mount any usb pen drive... The kernel log shows: Jul 4 12:20:04 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 24 Jul 4 12:20:04 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

Re: cannot mount usb pen drive

2007-07-04 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:23:44PM +0200, Miguel J. Jiménez wrote: Hi, from some time ago I cannot mount any usb pen drive... The kernel log shows: any USB pen drive? I.e. a or it doesn't matter which pen drive I try [pls don't be offended: English is not my first (or 2nd) language either

Re: cannot mount usb pen drive

2007-07-04 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Miguel J. Jiménez escribió: Hi, from some time ago I cannot mount any usb pen drive... The kernel log shows: Jul 4 12:20:04 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 24 Jul 4 12:20:04 localhost kernel: usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Jul

Re: cannot mount usb pen drive

2007-07-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Karl E. Jorgensen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 12:23:44PM +0200, Miguel J. Jiménez wrote: Hi, from some time ago I cannot mount any usb pen drive... The kernel log shows: any USB pen drive? I.e. a or it doesn't matter which pen drive I try

how to mount an encrypted usb pen drive?

2006-12-14 Thread Shrinivasan T
Friends. My friend encrypted a usb pen drive (ScanDisk) using windows and gave me.. he told the password to me. That drive has got some inbuilt software for encryption. All normal usb drives are automatically mounted in my debian box. My usb device is /dev/sda1. But, this pen drive can

Re: [Ilugc] how to mount an encrypted usb pen drive?

2006-12-14 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:53:24PM +0530, Shrinivasan T wrote: Friends. My friend encrypted a usb pen drive (ScanDisk) using windows and gave me.. he told the password to me. That drive has got some inbuilt software for encryption. All normal usb drives are automatically mounted in my

Re: how to mount an encrypted usb pen drive?

2006-12-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Shrinivasan T wrote: Friends. My friend encrypted a usb pen drive (ScanDisk) using windows and gave me.. he told the password to me. You need to ask your friend, most likely. I don't know of any standard means to encrypt pen drives using Windows. But that must be tempered by the fact that I

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-04 Thread Robert Epprecht
Grok Mogger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And also, has anyone ever had a usb flash drive actually wear out? I'm somewhat skeptical that having your OS entirely on a flash-drive would really ruin it. Of course, I've never tried it. But I don't think I've ever heard anyone mention that their

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-03 Thread Ottavio Caruso
Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Don't! Nothing should be installed on a flash drive. A traditional install was meant for hard drives, not flash drives. Browser cache, /tmp, syslog and so on will damage the device. If you want to run

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:33:23AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Don't! Nothing should be installed on a flash drive. A traditional install was meant for hard drives, not flash drives. Browser cache

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:33:23AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Don't! Nothing should be installed on a flash drive. A traditional install was meant for hard drives

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:49:46PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:33:23AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Don't! Nothing should be installed

RE: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-03 Thread Grok Mogger
a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 07:33:23AM -0700, Ottavio Caruso wrote: Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Don't! Nothing should be installed on a flash drive. A traditional install was meant for hard drives

Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta
Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. My first problem is, how big should the pen drive be according to the following options: 1st option. Minimal system with some networking tools. 2nd option. 1st option + X with FVWM. Thanks! PS - There is only one reason for me to post

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread Mladen Adamovic
1. for minimal system 400MB should be enough IMHO 2. for X depends what you choose as applications. 3. USB drives are nowadays at least at my place so cheap, like 2GB for 50 eur and that will be enough... Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:06:16PM +0100, Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: Hi! I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Over my shoulder, I hear the words, Make sure he doesn't put his swap file on the pen drive. That would be very bad for the pen drove. -- hendrik

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread Hernán Freschi
Mladen Adamovic wrote: 3. USB drives are nowadays at least at my place so cheap, like 2GB for 50 eur and that will be enough... Gmail AdSense suggested this: 1GB USB Flash Drive $16 - www.[nospamheheheeh].com - Wholesale USB flash drives 2GB USB Flash Drive $20, 4GB $33 I guess their

RE: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread David Christensen
Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Beware that you can't install an operating system on all USB flash drives. I have a 128 MB model that seems to have a ROM boot sector (?). I don't know all the gory details, but the bottom line is that it works

Remounting USB pen drive

2006-07-16 Thread T
Hi I am able to mount my USB pen drive by sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usbdrive/ However, after I umount it, I can't remount it again: sudo umount /media/usbdrive sudo eject /dev/sdb $ sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usbdrive/ mount: No medium found I'm

Re: Remounting USB pen drive

2006-07-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: Hi I am able to mount my USB pen drive by sudo mount /dev/sdb /media/usbdrive/ However, after I umount it, I can't remount it again: sudo umount /media/usbdrive sudo eject /dev/sdb $ sudo mount /dev

Re: USB - Pen Drive MP3 CyberShot DSC-60

2006-02-10 Thread Ubiratan
Instale o pacote udev, isso deve resolver. Abraços Em Qua, 2006-02-08 às 13:19 -0300, Rey Corvus escreveu: Pessoal, instalei o Debian 3.1 sarge (padrão) porém tenho dificuldades com as USBs Não consigo fazer com que ele monte automaticamente minha pen drive e minha camera digital. Se

USB - Pen Drive MP3 CyberShot DSC-60

2006-02-08 Thread Rey Corvus
Pessoal, instalei o Debian 3.1 sarge (padrão) porém tenho dificuldades com as USBsNão consigo fazer com que ele monte automaticamente minha pen drive e minha camera digital.Se eu instalo o usbmount, só consigo habilitar o pen drive, mas a camera digital continua sem baixar fotos.Qto a camera, eu

base install via usb pen drive

2006-01-11 Thread Troy Nelson
I'm looking for instruction on how to create a base install of Debian for my pen drive. This way I don't have to have cd-rom drives in all my computers. Thanks Troy

Re: base install via usb pen drive

2006-01-11 Thread Joey Hess
Troy Nelson wrote: I'm looking for instruction on how to create a base install of Debian for my pen drive. Installing Debian from files on a USB drive is documented in the installation manual. Installing _to_ a USB drive is mostly a matter of finding a drive, bios, and bootloader that all

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-31 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: That didn't work, which I tried first (mount /dev/sdb1). mount told me to specify file system type. I said /dev/sdb, not /dev/sdb1. Besides, merely mount /dev/sdb will definately won't work, since there are apparently partitions in

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-31 Thread Wilbert Knol
Suggest 'fdisk /dev/sdb' to check out the partition table on the unmounted device - make a back-up first. I have a 128 MByte '3-inch' USB flash drive that occasionally ends up with a thrashed partition table - although I always unmount and eject it properly. I've tried various file-systems on

Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The disk partition looks like this: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 521 MB, 521928704 bytes 17 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1003

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Chris Howie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 T wrote: I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 with type auto and vfat, but failed. Then I tried with usbfs. It mounted ok, but I wasn't able to find any meaningful files from the mount: usbfs is a virtual filesystem, like proc. It gives you information

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:13:29PM -0500, T wrote: Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The answer depends on which kernel version you are running, because there has been a switch from something

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread Bruno Buys
T wrote: Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The disk partition looks like this: $ fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 521 MB, 521928704 bytes 17 heads, 59 sectors/track, 1016 cylinders Units = cylinders

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:40:53 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: I tried to mount /dev/sdb1 with type auto and vfat, but failed. Then I tried with usbfs. It mounted ok, but I wasn't able to find any meaningful files from the mount: usbfs is a virtual filesystem, like proc. It gives you information

Re: Using USB pen drive

2005-12-30 Thread T
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:43:28 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 05:13:29PM -0500, T wrote: Hi, I need to copy some file from my friend's USB pen drive, but wasn't able to because I don't know how to properly mount it. The answer depends on which kernel version you

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-30 Thread Meni Shapiro
You are right but you are jumping ahead... First create a dir in /mnt and call it something familiar like /mnt/pen then mount it (as root) : #mount -tvfat -oumask /dev/sda1 /mnt/pen #cd /mnt/pen #ls MeniOn 5/30/05, Rafael Gomes Sasaki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Software Development Group

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-29 Thread Rene Tapia
I have sarge with a 2.6 kernel, and running gnome-volume-manager automatically mounts my usb pen drive, the device automatically appears in KDE Konqueror. --- Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-29 Thread Rafael Gomes Sasaki
--- Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... try to read the dmesg output and find out which device was allocated to it. On mine, the device is usually the /dev/sda1, so I can mount it

USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Software Development Group
Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Tucker
On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:50:19 -0400 Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Put this line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1/media/usb-key vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 then:

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Brian Tucker
On Fri, 27 May 2005 10:50:19 -0400 Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Put this line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda1/media/usb-key vfatrw,user,noauto 0 0 then:

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Andy McKay
open a command prompt and type dmesg after yopu plug it in that will let you kinow which device is is /dev/sda1 (for example if you have no other usb mass storage devices plugged in or scsi devices) and then you can just mount /dev/sda1 /mount/point/wherever/you/like On Friday 27 May 2005

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Shreyas Ananthan
Software Development Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... http://www.debian-administration.org/?article=126 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: USB Pen Drive

2005-05-27 Thread Mage
Software Development Group wrote: Hi. I am putting a pen drive on the USB port and I can't see it. How do I link to it? Mount it?... Thanks. You need kernel with usb support. If you have kernel from Debian distribution, you have kernel modules for usb support. Type as root: modprobe

Re: Activating Automount for USB Pen drive devices in Gnome

2005-05-17 Thread Dan R. Hunt
Both devices browse automatically now! Thanks -- Dan Hunt Saint Brieux Saskatchewan Canada

Activating Automount for USB Pen drive devices in Gnome

2005-05-16 Thread Dan R. Hunt
I want to activate the Automount for a USB pen drive ( also an iopd shuffle ) using Gnome on a Sarge system with a stock 2.6.8-2-k7 kernel. I'm looking for the icon to appear on the desktop when I plug one of these two into a usb port. I have created a file called /etc/udev/rules.d/10

Re: Activating Automount for USB Pen drive devices in Gnome

2005-05-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Dan R. Hunt wrote: I want to activate the Automount for a USB pen drive ( also an iopd shuffle ) using Gnome on a Sarge system with a stock 2.6.8-2-k7 kernel. I'm looking for the icon to appear on the desktop when I plug one of these two into a usb port. If those are UMS (USB Mass Storage

Re: Activating Automount for USB Pen drive devices in Gnome

2005-05-16 Thread Dan R. Hunt
On 5/16/05, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If those are UMS (USB Mass Storage) all you should need is gnome-volume-manager. I have the latest version installed, and the box's selected for mount and browse. -- Dan Hunt Saint Brieux Saskatchewan Canada

Re: Activating Automount for USB Pen drive devices in Gnome

2005-05-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
Dan R. Hunt wrote: I have the latest version installed, and the box's selected for mount and browse. Sorry, I should have added that you need to add yourself to the plugdev group also. Else, try running gnome-volume-manager from a terminal when you plug in the devices, and watch for any

Re: Activating Automount for USB Pen drive devices in Gnome

2005-05-16 Thread Dan R. Hunt
On 5/16/05, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I should have added that you need to add yourself to the plugdev group also. Else, try running gnome-volume-manager from a terminal when you plug in the devices, and watch for any messages. I added the users to the plugdev group. and

Re: USB pen drive

2004-04-05 Thread Jim McCloskey
| I want to mount an 128Mb USB pen drive IBM on my woody 3.0_r1. | The kernel version is 2.4.18 and it has disabled USB support, so I | have to recompile it. Which options should I have to enable in the | kernel to mount the pen drive (in adition to USB support)? |You didn't search too hard, did

USB pen drive

2004-04-01 Thread eduardo . gargiulo
Hi all I want to mount an 128Mb USB pen drive IBM on my woody 3.0_r1. The kernel version is 2.4.18 and it has disabled USB support, so I have to recompile it. Which options should I have to enable in the kernel to mount the pen drive (in adition to USB support)? -- ejg +++ NEU bei GMX und

Re: USB pen drive

2004-04-01 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello Eduardo! On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 09:53:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to mount an 128Mb USB pen drive IBM on my woody 3.0_r1. The kernel version is 2.4.18 and it has disabled USB support, so I have to recompile it. Which options should I have to enable in the kernel

SanDisk ImageMate USB (Pen drive USB)

2003-02-04 Thread Christophe Boyanique
Emile Carry à écrit: Bref, si je démarre avec le pen drive branché, kernel panic et si je le branche après le démarrage, le noyau le détecte mais le montage du device me renvoie un 'mount: No medium found' Bonjour, J'ai quasiment le même problème avec un lecteur de compact flash / secure

Re: Can't mount USB pen drive

2002-12-25 Thread Arne Goetje
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 December 2002 15:11, Lars Jensen wrote: I just purchased a USB 256MB pen drive. The manufacturer claims that it works with linux (kernel 2.4.x - I have 2.4.20). I'm having trouble mounting the drive, and was wondering what type of