I am trying to use an external USB 1.1 drive on a Debian (woody) system with kernel 2.4.24.
I have been able to partition the USB drive as ext2 using the SystemRescue CD (v0.2.9) with 'QtParted'. It shows up as 'dev/sda', with the partition as 'dev/sda1'. However, when I try to use 'Partimage' on the rescue CD to back up the partitions which reside on my hard drive, I receive an error that there may not be enough room on the target disk (not true) or I might not have permissions to write to the disk (the rescue CD runs as root). So, I am now trying to mount the USB drive from Debian to check into this problem further, but have been unable to. The drive does not show up when I boot the system (or do an 'fdisk -l'), even though I do see that usb is enabled: usb.c: registered new driver hub host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver V1.1 When I try to do what's below, I get the following error: # mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 # mkfs.ext2: No such device or address while trying to determine file system size When I try to do what's below, I get the following error: # mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt # mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device (same error with 'mount -t ext2 /dev/sda /mnt') Any advice would be appreciated. Barry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
