I have just installed Squeeze in a new eMachines E350 netbook, my first laptop, using the .iso image of CD-1 on a USB stick. The install went perfectly, thank you very much to all the developers.
A problem emerged today when I tried to transfer some files from the desktop computer to the netbook using the USB stick, which I had reformatted yesterday after the install. Yesterday the netbook attached the USB stick as sdc, and I was able to copy a file from the netbook to the USB stick and then from the USB stick to the desktop. But today, probably several reboots later, when I tried to use the USB stick to copy some files from the desktop computer to the netbook, the netbook for some reason attached the USB stick as sdb, and refused to mount it, although it was visible in Places in Gnome. Using dmesg showed messages like: UDF-fs: No VRS found or UDF-fs: No anchor found which are apparently about an optical disk, even though the netbook does not have an optical disk. The solution is given in the last post in this thread: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-258700.html For some reason, /etc/fstab lists /dev/sdb1 as /media/cdrom0. I commented out that line, as suggested, and rebooted, and can now use the USB stick to transfer files between the netbook and the desktop computer. I wondered if that unwanted entry in /etc/fstab might have arisen from the fact that the installation was from a .iso cd image on a USB stick, which perhaps might have been attached as sdb during the installation. Once again, thank you very much to all the developers for all the hard work put into making such a great system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201105152118.58225.ch...@chrisaustin.info
