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# 8  
Old 03-10-2017
The interesting thing is I am not seeing that command in the list. In fact there are a number of commands that I would expect to see that I am not seeing at all.
Forgive I am new to Solaris 11, my experience is more with Solaris 10 and a little bit of Solaris 9.
See Pic 4
Edit: $PATH is /usr/bin:/usr/sbin

There is currently two USB flash drives connected to the system, one being the live boot.
See pic 5 for the list of disk devices.
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Last edited by Kerbi; 03-10-2017 at 03:24 PM.. Reason: More details
# 9  
Old 03-10-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kerbi
Not sure if it is possible because it seems the services for mounting USB is offline as well. See Pic3.
The service is there to automatically mount removable media but you should still be able to detect and mount them manually:
Code:
devfsadm -v
mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/cNt0d0s0:c /mnt

# 10  
Old 03-11-2017
Hello jlliagre, I did not run the
Code:
devfsadm -v

when I had placed the second usb so now another device is showing up.

However, trying to mount as you recommended but it did not work.

Did a
Code:
svcs volfs

but it does have a service with that name as well.
# 11  
Old 03-11-2017
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kerbi
Hello jlliagre, I did not run the
Code:
devfsadm -v

when I had placed the second usb so now another device is showing up.
ok
Quote:
However, trying to mount as you recommended but it did not work.
What command did you try and what error did you get?
Is the USB key formatted as FAT32 or NTFS?
# 12  
Old 03-11-2017
Everything that jlliagre said plus read this thread:

How do I mount a USB Hard Drive?

If, as jlliagre is trying to help you do, you are trying to mount it manually then you do NOT want the volfs service running. If you are trying to manually manage the device you don't want an automated service trying to manage it at the same time!!!
# 13  
Old 03-13-2017
Apologies for the time it took for me to respond.
The USB is indeed FAT32.
The
Code:
devfsadm-v

output is in pic7.
That is matched with disk device on c13 see pic8.
Which I tried to mount as Jilliagre recommended see pic9.

As for volfs service I am noting that it does not seem to be on the live boot which I thought was strange as I was expecting that this to be in an offline State. See pic10.
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# 14  
Old 03-13-2017
Hmm, the issue is that message:
Code:
FSType pcfs is not installed on this system

Without FAT32 support, there is no way to mount the USB device.

A workaround would be to write a tar archive containing the drivers you want directly to the USB raw device without using any file system.
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