Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash
On Thu April 17 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy
> > linux on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat (
> > I think). When I insert that stick into my Debian Etch computer, the
> > computer reboots. Once it comes back up, it reads the USB stick as
> > /dev/sdb. Why does it make my PC crash and what can I do to stop it from
> > doing that.
>
> Is the system somehow trying to execute programs on that stick?
>
> A
It is bootable, it does have puppy linux on it, but it also contains files
that I transfer around..
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Paul Cartwright
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