Hi, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote: > On a default Debian system you need to be a member of > the "floppy" group.
Ferenc Wagner <wf...@niif.hu> wrote: > What about recommending /dev/disk/by-id/usb-X instead? I understand that the instructions about creating a Debian installation medium shall be usable on as many systems as possible, not only on already installed Debian systems. USB stick on a pre-udev SuSE: brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 32 2012-05-15 20:18 /dev/sdb USB stick on FreeBSD 8: crw-rw-r-- 1 root floppy 0, 124 May 15 20:13 /dev/da0 On Solaris it seems to be: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 60 Jun 8 2010 /dev/dsk/c5t0d0p0 -> ../../devices/pci@0,0/pci1458,5004@13,2/storage@4/disk@0,0:q br-------- 1 root root 83, 272 Jun 8 2010 /devices/pci@0,0/pci1458,5004@13,2/storage@4/disk@0,0:q I fail to find a device file with any w-permission in the c5t0d0 family of /dev/dsk or /dev/rdsk. (When i was younger, Solaris looked more like Unix.) There is a script http://src.opensolaris.org/source/raw/livemedia/livemedia/usbcopy which finds the USB stick and writes some data onto the stick while issueing several error messages. But the stick afterwards does not bear the data which i gave as input "image" to the script. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1273991356404283...@scdbackup.webframe.org