Tom Allison wrote: > 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 > > Not much left of my USB device. > Can't mount it or do anything with it after this, but it will start a > boot session. I am trying to mount it using 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 Well of course that won't work, boot.img.gz does not contain a partition table. You have one single fat filesystem starting at the very beginning of the device. /dev/sda. > /mnt' on a SuSE machine ( no debian yet ... ). mounting /dev/sda > doesn't work either: > loki:/home/tallison # mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/ > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, > or too many mounted file systems This is the exact same command you listed earlier as using before you copied the iso onto the disk. So why doesn't it work now? Possibly because USB storage can be fairly unreliable. Try ejecting the stick, restarting hotplug, re-inserting it, rewriting it, and then mounting it. -- see shy jo
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