Automounting USB mini drive

Lloyd Kvam lkvam at venix.com
Tue Aug 22 08:40:01 EDT 2006


I just learned about puppyos.com
	http://www.puppyos.com/

A small scale Linux distro designed for booting off USB flash devices.
I am downloading it now and will see how well it works for me.


On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 11:37 -0400, Python wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 09:41 -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> > I'd like to see the answer to this also. As an ancilliary point...
> > 
> > The number of writes to a jump drive is large but not unlimited. It's A 
> > Good Thing to add the noatime attribute to your fstab so that things like 
> > an ls command, or anything that reads a file doesn't update the accesstime 
> > for the file.
> > 
> > /dev/sdd2  /mnt/jump  vfat    noatime,noauto,user    0 0
> > 
> 
> Ideally there is now a new-fangled way to do that in the usb
> configuration stuff.
> 
> > BTW, there was a sale at uCenter this weekend. $16. 
> 
> uCenter?  Google was no help.
> 
> > That wasn't to make you feel bad but just to point out how cheap it's
> > really getting.
> 
> I decided to try making it a bootable linux (fedora, since that's what I
> am using otherwise).  That worked.  I needed to specify linux expert
> when booting the install DVD.  The partitioning interface can be a
> little confusing because the outline/tree view will expand unexpectedly
> so that you will find your pointer on the WRONG drive at times.  I used
> two ext3 partitions for boot and root.
> 
> After I was done the drive autoloaded!  My earlier changes had been done
> with gparted.  My guess is that there is some difference in the handling
> of the bytes.  I will do a careful comparison at some point when I get
> the chance.  
> 
> The only other issue I faced is that the fedora labels (e2label command)
> were /root and /boot which caused some confusion when autoloading the
> device.  /boot got (auto-magically) relabeled to /boot1 at some point.
> I changed the labels to usbroot and usbgrub and then edited the
> grub.conf and fstab files to fit the new names.
> 
-- 
Lloyd Kvam
Venix Corp.
1 Court Street, Suite 378
Lebanon, NH 03766-1358

voice:  603-653-8139
fax:    320-210-3409




More information about the gnhlug-discuss mailing list