Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread tomas
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 07:22:22AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China > before going into the cases with those trademarks on them. Definitely. Tell me where else to find high-skilled cheap labour and good tech infrastr

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Jude DaShiell
One more lesson applies to usb memory sticks. All of the guts visit China before going into the cases with those trademarks on them. On Fri, 1 Oct 2021, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > > I take two lessons out of it: > > > >

Re: USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-10-01 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 10/1/21, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > I take two lessons out of it: > > (1) quality of those things scatters widely. Do take Marco's > advise seriously and have always a Plan B. In my case, it's > Just A Backup (TM), so I make it so my main disk doesnt > fail until I find a replacement stick ;-@

USB memory stick quality [was: "Proper" filesystem for Debian installed on a flash drive]

2021-09-30 Thread tomas
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 10:13:48PM +0200, Marco Möller wrote: [...] > What I suggest you to consider: > (1) Although never having had trouble myself, for being prepared for > a USB hardware failure, which others are warning of [...] Not my main file system just the backups, but this is a very im

Re: Having problem with Debian's Installation Guide Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting

2016-10-29 Thread billwill onggo
@Stephan Beck, Sorry, English isnt good enough, may be it's hard to get what i really mean :( If you really follow the installation guide > ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexible, you have to create a syslinux.cfg > yourself, there is no existing syslinux.cfg (content), > There was no existing syslin

Re: Having problem with Debian's Installation Guide Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting

2016-10-28 Thread Stephan Beck
Hi, billwill onggo: > I was trying to create a bootable USB flash disk following this guide : > 4.3.3.2. Preparing Files For USB Memory Stick Booting > the flexible way > > adding installer image > https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy

Re: Having problem with Debian's Installation Guide Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting

2016-10-27 Thread billwill onggo
ly provide the boot parameter at boottime On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 1:19 PM, billwill onggo wrote: > I was trying to create a bootable USB flash disk following this guide : > 4.3.3.2. Preparing Files For USB Memory Stick Booting > the flexible way > > adding installer image > htt

Having problem with Debian's Installation Guide Preparing Files for USB Memory Stick Booting

2016-10-27 Thread billwill onggo
I was trying to create a bootable USB flash disk following this guide : 4.3.3.2. Preparing Files For USB Memory Stick Booting > the flexible way > adding installer image https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexible <https://www.debian.org/releases/sta

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-11 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Zenaan Harkness writes: > Martin, it looks like you'll have to recompile your kernel first sorry. I was kind of thinking that. Actually, I think I have a solution which I hadn't thought of at the time. I have FreeBSD running in a virtual machine on a Mac. That will be native ufs and I shou

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-09 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sat, 9 Aug 2014 20:34:35 +1000 Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Pity we don't have a generic FUSE module to run -all- filesystems in > userspace (as/when needed), so we could simply toggle 'experimental' > features on easily. Yet we do have UFS2 FUSE implementation :) http://sourceforge.net/p

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/9/14, didier gaumet wrote: > Le 08/08/2014 22:40, Martin Smith a écrit : > [...] >> try mount -t ufs -rw -o ufstype=ufs2,loop >> FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick-headless.img /mnt >> >> specifying ufstype works with bsd disks in the same machine so should >> hopefully work with yours. > [..

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-09 Thread didier gaumet
Le 08/08/2014 22:40, Martin Smith a écrit : [...] > try mount -t ufs -rw -o ufstype=ufs2,loop > FreeBSD-9.1-RELEASE-amd64-memstick-headless.img /mnt > > specifying ufstype works with bsd disks in the same machine so should > hopefully work with yours. [...] I' m a little bit puzzled: have you reb

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-08 Thread Martin Smith
On 08/08/2014 16:52, Martin G. McCormick wrote: Is it possible to mount the FreeBSD USB iso image on a debian system? I need to edit one of the configuration files and the nearest USB port is on a Debian system. The hope is to add a line of text to a file, transfer the image to a USB driv

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-08 Thread Brian
On Sat 09 Aug 2014 at 02:44:31 +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 8/9/14, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Zenaan Harkness writes: > >> I think you meant "-o loop" rather than "-ro loop". > >> > >> > first to see what would happen and it appeared to work but ls > >> > /mnt throws an I/O error as does

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/9/14, Martin McCormick wrote: > Zenaan Harkness writes: >> I think you meant "-o loop" rather than "-ro loop". >> >> > first to see what would happen and it appeared to work but ls >> > /mnt throws an I/O error as does any operation on /mnt until one >> > umounts /mnt. >> >> If the above don'

Re: Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-08 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 8/9/14, Martin G. McCormick wrote: > Is it possible to mount the FreeBSD USB iso image on a > debian system? I need to edit one of the configuration files and > the nearest USB port is on a Debian system. The hope is to add a > line of text to a file, transfer the image to a USB drive and

Mounting a FreeBSD USB Memory Stick Image rw

2014-08-08 Thread Martin G. McCormick
Is it possible to mount the FreeBSD USB iso image on a debian system? I need to edit one of the configuration files and the nearest USB port is on a Debian system. The hope is to add a line of text to a file, transfer the image to a USB drive and boot the FreeBSD system from the memory stic

Re: USB ACM vs USB memory device conflict

2011-09-16 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:22:50 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:44:28PM +, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> I would investigate this further by reading the mobile phone's manual >> :-? >> > The phone's manual instructions are to connect the usb cable and then in > settings

Re: USB ACM vs USB memory device conflict-Update

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:06:40PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I purchased a Verizon Samsung SHU-u370 cell phone and installed a > microSD card. When connected to a usb port the phone registers as an > ACM device, specifically as ttyACM0. The settins on the phone allow a > choice between Med

Re: USB ACM vs USB memory device conflict

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 02:44:28PM +, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:06:40 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I purchased a Verizon Samsung SHU-u370 cell phone and installed a > > microSD card. When connected to a usb port the phone registers as an > > ACM device, specifically as

Re: USB ACM vs USB memory device conflict

2011-09-15 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:06:40 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I purchased a Verizon Samsung SHU-u370 cell phone and installed a > microSD card. When connected to a usb port the phone registers as an > ACM device, specifically as ttyACM0. The settins on the phone allow a > choice between Media Sy

USB ACM vs USB memory device conflict

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas H. George
I purchased a Verizon Samsung SHU-u370 cell phone and installed a microSD card. When connected to a usb port the phone registers as an ACM device, specifically as ttyACM0. The settins on the phone allow a choice between Media Sync Mode and Modem modem and clearly the Debian kernel has chosen the

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 12/07/10 05:57 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:46:04 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> I am yet to try your suggestion. Meanwhile, I killed the following >> processes in my KDE session: > >> $ ps uax | grep gv >> hs 13699 0.0 0.0 7320 2904 ?S12:46 0:00 >> /usr/lib/gvfs/g

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-12 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:46:04 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 11/07/10 07:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> If you've got GNOME installed, open a GNOME session and launch "config >> editor". Navigate to "Desktop/gnome/volume manager" (in Squeeze, the >> location of these keys may vary) and uncheck: >> >>

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-12 Thread H.S.
On 11/07/10 07:34 AM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:06:14 -0400, H.S. wrote: > >> On a newly installed KDE on a Testing system, I notice that when I >> connect a USB flash stick memory, it automatically opens in a Nautilus >> window. >> >> On the previously installed system, the Nautilu

Re: USB memory stick plugged in - mouse stops

2010-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
On 12/07/10 10:43, Alan Chandler wrote: In the last few days, I have noticed that when I plug in the memory stick my mouse stops responding. I think it must be hardware related. I just tried moving to another USB slot on the front, and that is working without any problem. Forgive the nois

USB memory stick plugged in - mouse stops

2010-07-12 Thread Alan Chandler
I have a USB mouse and keyboard both plugged through an external hub and connected into a USB port at the back of my computer Separately I have a USB port out of the front of the computer in which (via a short extension lead) I am plugging in a memory stick. (I am saying this because I think i

Re: newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-11 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 19:06:14 -0400, H.S. wrote: > On a newly installed KDE on a Testing system, I notice that when I > connect a USB flash stick memory, it automatically opens in a Nautilus > window. > > On the previously installed system, the Nautilus window did not open and > only the removable

newly installed KDE: don't want Nautilus window when USB memory inserted

2010-07-10 Thread H.S.
On a newly installed KDE on a Testing system, I notice that when I connect a USB flash stick memory, it automatically opens in a Nautilus window. On the previously installed system, the Nautilus window did not open and only the removable device notifier for KDE popped up a message saying that a me

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-08-07 Thread Mark
Successfully installed Lenny using this method last night. The only post-installation tweak was to comment out the cd-rom line in /etc/apt/sources.list so aptitude doesn't try to look at the usb memory stick when looking for updates. Other than that she worked like a charm. Mark On Fri,

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-08-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark: > > - used "shred" command to blank memory stick > - used GParted to create 2 partitions: (1) a 1 GB FAT16 partition that I > made bootable via Manage Flags; (2) the remainder (~6.6 GB) I formatted to > ext3 > - followed the instructions here > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-08-06 Thread Mark
This was a bit trickier than I thought due to FAT file system's 4 GB file size limit. My steps are summarized below in case they're helpful for anyone else.. USB memory stick used was an OCZ Diesel 8 GB. - used "shred" command to blank memory stick - used GParted to create 2

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Suno Ano
Thierry> Oupss sorry, did not see that your link was the same as mine. Thierry> Then is it possible that you machine can't boot from usb Thierry> device? Thierry Well, if he alters the boot order from the BIOS so the machine boots From USB before the disk, everything should work fine; below is

[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Mark
. :) Computer now boots right into the Debian installer off the usb memory stick. I don't know if others have seen this but installing from usb memory stick is lads faster than using CD or DVD (at least for my machines), hence my persistence to want to get this to work. Sure wish I had t

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Oupss sorry, did not see that your link was the same as mine. Then is it possible that you machine can't boot from usb device? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Thierry Chatelet
What about starting from here: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en and following the howto. Never failed for me. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread S Scharf
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Mark wrote: > That's what "syslinux /dev/sdX1" does yes? I followed the > instructions verbatim, if more needs to be done let me know. > > To quote from http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexibleand 4.3.3. Booting the USB stick

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Mark
That's what "syslinux /dev/sdX1" does yes? I followed the instructions verbatim, if more needs to be done let me know. Mark On 7/31/09, S Scharf wrote: > On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Mark wrote: > >> I hadn't tried to make a bootable Lenny usb memory

Re: UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread S Scharf
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Mark wrote: > I hadn't tried to make a bootable Lenny usb memory stick in a few months > and now cannot seem to make the stick bootable by following the instructions > here > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-fle

UN-[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-31 Thread Mark
I hadn't tried to make a bootable Lenny usb memory stick in a few months and now cannot seem to make the stick bootable by following the instructions here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexibleand using the files here http://http.us.debian.org/debian/

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-30 17:00, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote: I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images. Linux uses the udf fs for DVD & BlueRay disks. I expected that,

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Ron Johnson: > On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The >> DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images. > > > Linux uses the udf fs for DVD & BlueRay disks. > I expected that, too, but: $ file iso/debia

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-30 14:08, Jochen Schulz wrote: Mark: Has anyone had success using the method described here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (Section 4.3.2) using a DVD .iso image? I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The DVD image is a regu

Re: [SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Mark
I've used unetbootin for a friend's Ubuntu installation (worked very well) and tried it with Lenny stable but it didn't work. The second link you provided indicates it is available for squeeze and sid but not Lenny so I assume that's why it doesn't work with the current Lenny stable. Luckily the

Re: [SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Preston Boyington
Mark wrote: > Thanks J. Found an 8 GB drive for $16 so I'm moving forward with this, > I figure it's worth a try. > Just curious but have you tried UNetbootin? http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ it's also available in Debian: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=all&keywords=unetbootin --

[SOLVED] Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Mark
Thanks J. Found an 8 GB drive for $16 so I'm moving forward with this, I figure it's worth a try. Mark On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Mark: > > > > Has anyone had success using the method described here > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (S

Re: Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark: > > Has anyone had success using the method described here > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (Section 4.3.2) > using a DVD .iso image? I haven't tried it yet, but I see no reason why that shouldn't work. The DVD image is a regular ISO 9660, just as the CD images.

Lenny Installation from USB Memory stick using DVD .iso image

2009-07-30 Thread Mark
Has anyone had success using the method described here http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s03.html.en (Section 4.3.2) using a DVD .iso image? The manual lists CD image but not DVD (Section 4.3.2.2), maybe I'm over analyzing it. I'm debating purchasing a new 8 GB or g

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-28 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 11:16:44PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote: > >> Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory > >> stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? > > > > 1. noatime has the most impact.

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory >> stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? > > 1. noatime has the most impact. Okay. > 2. Modern flash memory lasts much longer than older fla

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Daryl Styrk wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory >> stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? >> >> Thanks. >> > > I would bet the router dies well before you burn up a flash drive. > > > http://www.getusb.info/what-i

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread Daryl Styrk
H.S. wrote: Hello, I have attached a USB stick (those little keychain devices) to my router machine. The idea is to add those 2 GB space so that my friends and family can transfer file to/from it. Now, I am also concerned with the number of read/write cycles limitation on these kind of memory d

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, I have attached a USB stick (those little keychain devices) to my router machine. The idea is to add those 2 GB space so that my friends and family can transfer file to/from it. Now, I am also concerned with the number of read/write cycles limitation o

mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have attached a USB stick (those little keychain devices) to my router machine. The idea is to add those 2 GB space so that my friends and family can transfer file to/from it. Now, I am also concerned with the number of read/write cycles limitation on these kind of memory devices. I have

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Oct.08, 13:13:50, J.H.Kim wrote: > dosfsck made my usb stick works fine~ > Thank you. > > The following message was the result of "dosfsck /dev/sdb1" : > > frog1120:/home/frog# dosfsck -a /dev/sdb1 > > dosfsck 2.11, 12 Mar 2005, FAT32, LFN > There are differences between boot sector

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread J . H . Kim
2008/10/10 Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On 2008-10-09 18:03 +0200, J.H.Kim wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/USB DISK$ df /media/USB* > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > /dev/sdb1 976996945752 31244 97% /media/USB DISK > > > >

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-09 18:03 +0200, J.H.Kim wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/USB DISK$ df /media/USB* > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 976996945752 31244 97% /media/USB DISK > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/USB DISK$ du -s > 443576 . > >

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread J . H . Kim
> > a) please don't cc me - I read the list > b) please don't top post > -> I'm sorry. So, back to your question: > > I'm using LG X TICK USB memory stick (1GB) in Etch. > > In MS windows the USB memory stick can save 1GB data, but in my etch &g

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread michael
of same disk 350MB differently. > a) please don't cc me - I read the list b) please don't top post So, back to your question: > I'm using LG X TICK USB memory stick (1GB) in Etch. > In MS windows the USB memory stick can save 1GB data, but in my etch > the device

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-09 Thread J . H . Kim
e contents in /media/USB DISK is 350MB, which is almost same on MS Windows. I wish to know why "df" measures the size of the disk 914MB and File Manager measures the size of same disk 350MB differently. On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:58 +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > > Hi, eveyone > > >

Re: USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-08 Thread michael
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 15:58 +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, eveyone > > I'm using LG X TICK USB memory stick (1GB) in Etch. > In MS windows the USB memory stick can save 1GB data, but in my etch > the device can save only 450MB data. > When over 450MB data is to be copied

USB memory stick in Etch

2008-10-06 Thread J . H . Kim
Hi, eveyone I'm using LG X TICK USB memory stick (1GB) in Etch. In MS windows the USB memory stick can save 1GB data, but in my etch the device can save only 450MB data. When over 450MB data is to be copied to that disk, the error message "DISK FULL" is prompted. Is it driver pro

Re: Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-08 Thread Johannes Graumann
After replacing the ISO with a regular business card one this workes just fine / the netinstall ones failed reporting not being able to access the CDROM ... Joh Johannes Graumann wrote: > Johannes Graumann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I'm trying to install a driveles s

Re: Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install a driveles system via an USB memory stick like so: > > - get > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz > -get > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/

Can't install driveles system from USB memory stick: ISO not found.

2008-06-07 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, I'm trying to install a driveles system via an USB memory stick like so: - get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz -get http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-i386/current/images/netboot/min

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > > > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if > > > > there is > > > > space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from > > > > CDROM > > > > or network, if

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-10 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > > On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:43, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > Do you think this information from > > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en is > > > > incorrect? > > > > > > > > > > > > If you want to install over the network, without using an ISO image, > >

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:13:05PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:24:54AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > > > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memor

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-09 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 10:25, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:43, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > Do you think this information from > > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en is > > > incorrect? > > > > > > > > > If you want to install

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:43, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > Do you think this information from > > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en is incorrect? > > > > > > If you want to install over the network, without using an ISO image, you > > will of course skip the pre

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-09 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
onduct before you read and post to them? > Do I violate Debian lists policy? When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send a carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly request to be copied. Yes, you do. > You are trying to put debian installer on an USB m

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-09 Thread Wei Wang
What do you mean by "EXPLICITLY request them"? You are trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. I recalled my memory and found the URL for you. Do I violate Debian lists policy? Have you ever read the Debian installation guide before you install Debian? On Tue, 2007-10-0

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-09 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 08:43, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Do you think this information from > http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en is incorrect? > > > If you want to install over the network, without using an ISO image, you > will of course skip the previous step. Mo

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is > > space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM > > or network, if possible. Is this po

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-08 Thread Wei Wang
Here it is from Debian installation guide http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 00:11 +0200, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is > space for full ISO,

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 12:24:54AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is > > space for full ISO, I'd like to have possi

Re: which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 09 October 2007 00:11, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is > space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM > or network, if possible. Is this possible

which initrd to pur on USB memory stick?

2007-10-08 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
Hello, I'm trying to put debian installer on an USB memory stick. Even if there is space for full ISO, I'd like to have possibility of installing from CDROM or network, if possible. Is this possible? which initrd to use for this case? Although "vmlinuz" seems to be the same

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-15 Thread Herb Howe
Thanks to all who responded to my original post. The problem is apparently that USB memory sticks and flash cards (and probably other external memory cards) often have unique formatting that is understood by Windows but not by Linux. The best solution suggested so far (from Juha Tuuna, shown

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Dave Patterson
on Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:47:41AM -0800 Herb Howe mumbled: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > Here's the setup: > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:000

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread Wayne Topa
John W. Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > FWIW: My usb stick did not mount as sda* because I was mounting it in a card > reader of several slots. My hardware management system decided that each slot > was "sde*" so check you syslog output & look at the output of dmesg. > > Wh

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-13 Thread John W. Foster
On Friday 12 January 2007 12:01 pm, Wayne Topa wrote: > Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > > > Here's the setup: > > > &g

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Herb Howe([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > > Here's the setup: > > Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: > Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:000

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 12. January 2007 16:47, Herb Howe wrote: > I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using > Debian, kernel 2.6.8. > ... > There are lots of questions on the web about this problem but few simple > answers. If there is a known workable solution online, could someo

Re: USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Andrew Perrin
card using Debian, kernel 2.6.8. Here's the setup: Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Line in fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,rw 0 0 Mount command: mount /mnt/memstick Error message from mount command

USB memory stick and flashcard mount failure

2007-01-12 Thread Herb Howe
I'm having problems mounting either a memory stick or a flashcard using Debian, kernel 2.6.8. Here's the setup: Line from lsusb with usb memory stick inserted: Bus 004 Device 002: ID 08ec:0008 M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Line in fstab: /dev/sda1 /mnt/memstick vfat user,noauto,rw

Re: Help getting USB memory stick as device working

2006-07-23 Thread Ice
t;To: debian-user@lists.debian.org>Subject: Re: Help getting USB memory stick as device working>Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:22:52 +0800>>Yusuf Mustarif 写道:>>Hi, can't get my USB memory stick showing up as a device/folder so I can >>write to it & see information on it. I don&#x

Re: Help getting USB memory stick as device working

2006-07-23 Thread Yusuf Mustarif
Thanks for your help guys. My memory stick was USB1.0. I got it working correctly by mounting msdos file system type ;) Peter From: shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Help getting USB memory stick as device working Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2006 21:22:52

Re: Help getting USB memory stick as device working

2006-07-23 Thread shell
Yusuf Mustarif 写道: Hi, can't get my USB memory stick showing up as a device/folder so I can write to it & see information on it. I don't know what I am doing. My system & what I have done are below. Any help much appreciated. Thank you Peter Here is my setup deb26:/# cat

Re: Help getting USB memory stick as device working

2006-07-23 Thread Colin
Yusuf Mustarif wrote: > Hi, can't get my USB memory stick showing up as a device/folder so I can > write to it & see information on it. I don't know what I am doing. My > system & what I have done are below. Any help much appreciated. > Thank you > Peter > >

Help getting USB memory stick as device working

2006-07-23 Thread Yusuf Mustarif
Hi, can't get my USB memory stick showing up as a device/folder so I can write to it & see information on it. I don't know what I am doing. My system & what I have done are below. Any help much appreciated. Thank you Peter Here is my setup deb26:/# cat /etc/fstab # /etc/

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread H.S.
Magnus Therning wrote: BTW, I let udev mount the pluggable devices automatically. I doubt udev is the party that mounts it. udev creates the device in /dev, I don't think it can mount things. Yes, you are correct. AFAIU on GNOME this is what happens when a storage device is plugged in:

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 13:57:42 -0600, John W. M. Stevens wrote: >On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51PM -0400, H.S. wrote: >> Magnus Therning wrote: >> >I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. >> > >> >I've noticed that if I right-click

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51 -0400, H.S. wrote: [..] >I usually use KDE and I see that by unmounting a USB device from its >icon on the desktop, the icon seems to stay as long as the USB stick's >activity LED keeps blinking. For large files (images), I have noticed >that the icon stays on the d

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-18 Thread Magnus Therning
a bug. I'm quoting from my original email: I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the desktop and choose "Unmount Volume" the icon disappears immediately. However the device may be busy in the background, and if I remove the stick too early files copied to

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-16 Thread H.S.
John W. M. Stevens wrote: device only when the sync is complete. I am surprised Gnome doesn't do so. Sorry, the above sentence was supposed to be: "I am surprised OP's Gnome doesn't do so." This, however, may be the issue: your system may be misconfigured, or this undesirable behaviour

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-16 Thread John W. M. Stevens
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Magnus Therning wrote: > >I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. > > > >I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the > >desktop and choose "Unmount Volume"

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:36:51 -0400, H.S. wrote: >Magnus Therning wrote: >>I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. >>I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the >>desktop and choose "Unmount Volume" the icon disappears

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-14 Thread Magnus Therning
On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 09:38:12 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >Issue a 'sync' command just before unmounting. Not a very good answer! If I'm in a terminal to issue a 'sync' command I might as well issue a 'pumount' command (which will trigger a sync as well). :-) /M -- Magnus Therning

Re: Removing USB memory

2006-07-13 Thread Margiolas Christos
mayby kde now is better than gnome better technology more usability..XristosOn 7/13/06, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Magnus Therning wrote:> I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. >> I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the>

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