Re: ltsp-usb

[Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>]

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On 08-12-2004 13:47, Gavin McCullagh wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004, Klaus Ade Johnstad wrote:
> 
> 
>>Works for me :-)
>>
>>Maybe your pen isn't /dev/sda1 but
>>/dev/sda?
> 
> 
> This inconsistency across drives is a real pain.  In linux in general my
> pendrive is always /dev/sda4.  I guess this implies an odd partition table.
> I'm still unsure how to reliably predict the partition number on any
> pendrive except by trial and error.

Have a look at usbguid2sd at http://greenfly.org/scripts.html

And the accompanying text at http://greenfly.org/tips/usb_drive.html

It doesn't do exactly what you need, but helps figure out where in your
infrastructure to hook into and hack those extra bits tying things to
floppyd.


> Trying Ubuntu linux recently, it `just worked' for the first time popping
> up right away on the desktop.

That was probably using a 2.6 kernel, right? There's been clever moves
regarding recognizing and mounting devices lately - related to pmount,
hotplug and hinting of what drives are removable in recent kernels.

(haven't checked, but it may actually be "just working" now on my
lessdisks setup, but I doubt same approach will be possible with LTSP).


 - Jonas


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