Re: USB Mass Storage installation

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Giuseppe Sacco wrote:
> Il mar, 2004-03-30 alle 01:17, Tom Allison ha scritto:
>
> > I'm building a new USB mass storage device from the 0329 netinstall.iso:
> >
> > Using the installation manual section 4.4.1:
> >
> > zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
> > (was gzip -cd and not zcat)
> > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt
> > cp sarge-i386-netinst.iso /mnt
> > sync (I added this)
> > umount /mnt
>
> [...]
>
> No sure about this, but I think it should be:
> 0. insterst USB and check in /var/log/syslog that it is
>    recongnized as /dev/sda
> 1. zcat boot.img.gz > /dev/sda
> 2. mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt
> 3. cp sarge-i386-netinst.iso /mnt
> 4. umount /mnt   (this will also sync)
> 5. reboot
>
> The mount command require a partition name (/dev/sda1) and not a disk
> name (/dev/sda). If this work then I think the installation manual
> should be corrected too.
>
> Bye,
> Giuseppe

No, this is exactly correct and the manual was recently corrected 
because referencing /dev/sda1 will get you nothing.

My point was that this process of building a USB centric installation 
medium will work for an installation, but the USB device is somewhat 
messed up in the process.

I tried the other method in section 4.4.2 but could never get the image 
to boot from my USB device.  even 'install-mbr' failed to help.