Well, so much for USB support in the NET4801. The stick is detected on boot up but not mounted.
If I unplug it and then plug it back in after bootup when the system is running then it gets detected and mounted as /dev/sda1. However, this still doesn't allow me to make any writes other than directly to /dev/sda1's files via the command prompt. Obviously I can't be re-plugging the USB stick every time there's a power cut. Mark On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 10:41 -0400, Mark Phillips wrote: > I think that the OS is NOT picking up the USB stick for it's own use. > > I'll try the /dev/hda approach rather than /dev/sda but I thought the > whole point of using s CF card and USB combo was that the CF card was > write cycle limited as well as pretty slow. > > Have I spotted an "undocumented feature" here? > > Mark > > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 09:20 -0500, Darrick Hartman wrote: > > Mark, > > > > > > Mark Phillips wrote: > > > Hi Darrick, > > > > > > Yes, I have rebooted a number of times. > > > > > > I get this when I issue your command; > > > > > > pbx ~ # findfs LABEL=asturw > > > findfs: Unable to resolve 'LABEL=asturw' > > > pbx ~ # > > > > > > I'm running a 1gb CF card and a 512mb USB stick in a NET4801. > > > > > > If findfs wasn't able to find the label, it's not going to mount your > > unionfs partition. > > > > Are you certain that you rebooted after creating the unionfs partition? > > (ie fdisk /dev/hda ; create new partition bla bla reboot) > > > > Then after rebooting 'genunion /dev/hda2' > > > > I don't know how well the usb thumb drive will work for the unionfs > > partition. I haven't tested it. If you have a 1GB CF card, you have a > > large amount of space available on that card for your unionfs partition. > > I strongly recommend using that and not using the usb thumb drive. > > > > > The genunion script appears to run correctly. It doesn't bail out with > > > any errors or bitch about things it can't find. > > > > > > With the "old" 0.4 images etc one had to choose from a menu at boot time > > > which told Astlinux what partitions to use for what purposes. I don't > > > see this menu anymore. Should there be one? > > > > With new images, the initrd is able to auto detect the unionfs and key > > disk (if present) partitions based on the file system labels. These are > > then mounted at boot time. > > > > Darrick > > > > > On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 08:55 -0500, Darrick Hartman wrote: > > >> Mark Phillips wrote: > > >>> OK, I have runnix installed and also AstLinux too but I can't get it to > > >>> write anything down. > > >>> > > >>> I've run genunion and it makes a keydisk of sorts but doesn't mount it > > >>> anywhere so as to write to it (that I can see anyhow). Whenever I try to > > >>> change the root password it fails to write to /etc/shadow. > > >>> > > >>> Writes through the web interface fail also. > > >>> > > >>> As far as I can see I've gone through the entire howto-ish. I realise > > >>> that it's a work in progress. > > >>> > > >>> Any help etc would be greatly appreciated. > > >>> > > >>> Thanks > > >>> > > >>> Mark > > >>> > > >> Mark, > > >> > > >> Have you rebooted since running genunion? > > >> > > >> To make sure the unionfs partition was created properly, do the > > >> following: > > >> > > >> findfs LABEL=asturw > > >> > > >> If you're not getting a partition as a result of that query, you don't > > >> have a unionfs partition. > > >> > > >> Darrick > > -- Mark Phillips, G7LTT/NI2O Randolph, NJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
