On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:06:04AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > 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.. right. some people running gnome (maybe kde, I don't know) will set the system to auto-open new media when it's inserted, perhaps that is what causes this problem. Can you ssh in from another box, tail -f /var/log/syslog and watch it go down? A
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