Final words on mounting points and fstab, I am quitting any update for wheezy 7.0.8 for the simple reason, that after the last update, four days ago, not even now a former pluggable usb-drive will only work or not due to the lack of a mounting point. I doubt that this is useful, to give each and every device around, a certain line in /etc/fstab. So I will probably move to external devices, that are recognized without editing every time the fstab as root.
Found this on stackexchange, well, probably shame on me, but it won't change my point of view.
as root, su.
Thumbs up.
May for others this link can be useful who may still want to use their OS, whatever this may be (mint, buntu, debian based) and who cannot get acquainted to systemd and its tricky behavior. So here is something that can put the fun in your sys, but getting rid of systemd.
Have fun.
I got Puppy linux and installed it on a usb stick.
In the BIOS i selected to boot from USB-FDD but it goes to my HD and ignores the USB stick,
What going on ?? (2 Replies)
Hello Everybody
I am planning to install Fedora core 8 on an extra PC I have; what I wanna do is to boot from a USB stick then install Fedora from an ISO image I already have via FTP. Could any one tell me how to create bootable USB Stick for Fedora as I already found how to install from FTP... (0 Replies)
I have a P-Series Machine running AIX 5.3, it has a USB Port on the front of the server, can I use a USB Stick on AIX platforms?? if so how..:rolleyes: (2 Replies)
Dummies questions, perfect for this. I cannot mount my idiotic usb stick on Slackware, I input the following on non-graphic mode as root:
Mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1/usbstick
usbstick is the folder i created for mounting my USB, the file system is FAT, and everytime I input that I get some kind... (2 Replies)
When mounting a USB stick or pen drive on a FreeBSD machine I always issue the following command:
mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt
Something I have always wondered is what the option msdosfs stands for and more importantly, why it is necessary. (7 Replies)
Hello,
i am using a solaris thinclient that tries to connecting to a terminalserver. (RDP) Everything works fine, but the usb redirection. If i put in a usb stick i always get 2 usb-drives mounted. If i look in /tmp/SUNWut/mnt/<name of the host> i see 2 devices. One with the name of the... (2 Replies)
Hey Guys
I have an Ubuntu CD and I was thinking of creating like a bootable hard drive with various OS so that I can just boot OSs with t drive and not require the CDs. I was just wondering is there a way I can do this, like have Ubuntu boot from a USB stick? If yes how is that possible(even if I... (3 Replies)
hi
Howto mount an USB stick under SCO 5.0.7?
BTW ist it possible to mount USB stick in the command line using 'tools' at the Boot: prompt from OpenServer Release 5.0.7 installation CD? (1 Reply)
I am trying to use a USB (Pen?) drive on Unixware 7.1.4.
The USB stick is in the machine and the machine recognises it when I enter usbprobe as follows:
Path - Address Description
-----------------------------
+++++++ BUS #2
0 - 1 - HUB "UHCI Root Hub"
1 - 2 - HID "Chicony Wireless Device"... (1 Reply)
I would probably set all my rubber points here to get some real help for creating a boot device on a usb-stick. There is no CD-drive on this machine, thats why I need to use a usb-stick. And scrumming in a CD-drive to fuddle around in the fstab or something like that is out of reach.
My wisdom so... (9 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT BSD
mkproto
MKPROTO(8) System Manager's Manual MKPROTO(8)NAME
mkproto - construct a prototype file system
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/mkproto special proto
DESCRIPTION
Mkproto is used to bootstrap a new file system. First a new file system is created using newfs(8). Mkproto is then used to copy files
from the old file system into the new file system according to the directions found in the prototype file proto. The prototype file con-
tains tokens separated by spaces or new lines. The first tokens comprise the specification for the root directory. File specifications
consist of tokens giving the mode, the user-id, the group id, and the initial contents of the file. The syntax of the contents field
depends on the mode.
The mode token for a file is a 6 character string. The first character specifies the type of the file. (The characters -bcd specify regu-
lar, block special, character special and directory files respectively.) The second character of the type is either u or - to specify set-
user-id mode or not. The third is g or - for the set-group-id mode. The rest of the mode is a three digit octal number giving the owner,
group, and other read, write, execute permissions, see chmod(1).
Two decimal number tokens come after the mode; they specify the user and group ID's of the owner of the file.
If the file is a regular file, the next token is a pathname whence the contents and size are copied.
If the file is a block or character special file, two decimal number tokens follow which give the major and minor device numbers.
If the file is a directory, mkproto makes the entries . and .. and then reads a list of names and (recursively) file specifications for
the entries in the directory. The scan is terminated with the token $.
A sample prototype specification follows:
d--777 3 1
usr d--777 3 1
sh ---755 3 1 /bin/sh
ken d--755 6 1
$
b0 b--644 3 1 0 0
c0 c--644 3 1 0 0
$
$
SEE ALSO fs(5), dir(5), fsck(8), newfs(8)BUGS
There should be some way to specify links.
There should be some way to specify bad blocks.
Mkproto can only be run on virgin file systems. It should be possible to copy files into existent file systems.
Mkproto can only copy files up to a single level indirect less 4kb. This works out to about 252Kb
4.2 Berkeley Distribution November 17, 1996 MKPROTO(8)