Re: USB flash key and other issues.
On Sunday 14 January 2007 17:48, alexandre suzuki wrote:
> 1)I have a USB flash key of 1Gb but my
> DebianPPC-kernel
> 2.6.8 when booting recognize the key,the
> seller(Verbatim),
> etc. but when I try to mount the key I can´t find a
> filesystem
> to do so: msdos,vfat etc. are not good,I receive a
> warning
> saying that can´t find a FAT filesystem on the key.In
> MacOS9.2
> the filesystem on the key is PC Exchange(MS-DOS)(PC
> Exchange is
> the extension that deals with MS-DOS,Windows
> filesystems.).
> The key in System Requirements says that is compatible
> with
> Linux kernel >= 2.4.,do I need to format /dev/sda with
> mkfs?
Do you only have an /dev/sda or do you also have /dev/sda1.
I normal USB flash key has the basic device with a single VFAT partition
on it - so you will get two devices appear in the kernel.
I don't know how advanced the version of your debian is, but I run
unstable, and when I add myself to group 'plugdev' in kde (and I think
gnome does the same) it automatically mounts it etc for me.
>
> 2)I upgraded initrd-tools from version 0.1.78 to
> 0.1.81.1,
> (to install libc6-2.3.5-8) but when booting I see:
> .
> .
> .
> initrd-tools: 0.1.78
> .
When do you see that?
> .
> .
>
> With dpkg --status initrd-tools ,I see that
> 0.1.81.1 is
> installed without any problem: install ok installed.
> So,what is happening here?I need to upgrade libc6 to
> 2.3.5-8 version but it needs initrd-tools > 0.1.78.
> I try and I can install libc6-2.3.5-8 but I don´t do
> that
> because of potential problems.
How are you installing packages - try using aptitude as it keeps track
of all these dependencies for you and you don't have to worry too much.
>
> 3) I can stop processes manually with the kill
> command.What
> is the command to start them manually?
>
Don't understand - what processes?
If you are talking about those during startup
/etc/init.d/xxxx start and /etc/init.d/xxxx stop where xxxx is the
particular daemon. (look in /etc/init.d to see whats there).
--
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk
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