Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [The problem vanished almost by itself? Why?]

2007-02-24 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
At 18:56 -0500 23/02/07, Matthew K Poer wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:41 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: Hi! For some reason I do not understand, it now works, and I do not know > why. Please tell me why it works now: ... > I can see number of cylinders has changed. But I do not know

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [The problem vanished almost by itself? Why?]

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 22:41 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > Hi! > > For some reason I do not understand, it now works, and I do not know > why. Please tell me why it works now: > > At 18:06 +0100 23/02/07, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > ... > >>I'm not sure if I follow. You have (had?) the fol

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [The problem vanished almost by itself? Why?]

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
Hi! For some reason I do not understand, it now works, and I do not know why. Please tell me why it works now: At 18:06 +0100 23/02/07, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: ... I'm not sure if I follow. You have (had?) the following disk: #fdisk -l /dev/sdc Device Boot StartEnd Blocks

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [it helped - but another problem persists]

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
At 11:45 -0500 23/02/07, Matthew K Poer wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:12 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: Now another problem appears - that also was there before. mkfs.vfat can not see the first partition only: pc:/dev#mkfs.vfat -f 1 /dev/sdc1 The command: pc:/dev#mkfs.ext2 /dev/sd

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [it helped - but another problem persists]

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:12 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > Now another problem appears - that also was there before. > > mkfs.vfat can not see the first partition only: > pc:/dev#mkfs.vfat -f 1 /dev/sdc1 > The command: > pc:/dev#mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdd2 > mke2fs 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) > Could no

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem [it helped - but another problem persists]

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
At 10:02 -0500 23/02/07, Matthew K Poer wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:51 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch distribution. I have followed the description on this page: http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ The memo

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri February 23 2007 07:02, Matthew K Poer wrote: > If you want to 'mkfs.vfat' try 'apt-get install dosfstools' as it > handles FAT systems. > > Odd: I was wondering earlier how to reformat my USB MSD. I guess mkfs > will do it. I probably wouldn't have remembered the command 'mkfs' if it > had

Re: etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:51 +0100, Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: > I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch > distribution. > > I have followed the description on this page: > http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ > The memory card Transcend SD 512MB 80x lists ( ls -

etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
Hope this is the right group... I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch distribution. I have followed the description on this page: http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ - in section 3.1 The memory card Transcend SD 512MB 80x lists ( ls -la /dev/sd* ) up as

etch; possibly just mkfs problem

2007-02-23 Thread Glenn Moeller-Holst
Hope this is the right group... I have problems using the mkfs command i a newly updated debian etch distribution. I have followed the description on this page: http://aragorn.kortex.jyu.fi:8080/h6300/ - in section 3.1 The memory card Transcend SD 512MB 80x lists ( ls -la /dev/sd* ) up as