On Monday 30 April 2018 09:24:12 Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/30/2018 07:27 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Oh, and PS: it is not very clear to me in what you wrote what you > > are having trouble understanding -- if you are seeking answers, > > maybe you should ask more clearly. > > > > From my peanut gallery observation of this thread, I think one of > > your problems is that the device you are tying to use (to install > > Linux, iirc?) is mounted with the nodev option, which, somebody > > explained in a followup post, is not what you want to use. > > > > Are you familiar with the mstab, fstab, mount, and umount commands? > > I think it would be helpful if you were... > > *ROFL* Them be motivation for my post ;{ > When I wrote "... a gentleman replied with the proper syntax for one > command", I was referring to that post. It solved _one_ of my > problems. > > Based on 50+ years of hitting "corner cases" while trouble shooting in > various disciplines, I've cleared hard disk space on another machine > to avoid attempting to use a flash drive as a debootstrap target. > > Sometimes automount and cousins are convenient. Other times %@%$^$!*() > ;/ > Let me clarify that, to a right Pain In The Ass when trying to write an armhf or arm64 systen to its boot u-sd card. They grab the card the instant its plugged in and then dd has a hell of a time trying to write to a mounted device.
> > On Monday, April 30, 2018 08:23:43 AM [email protected] wrote: > >> On Monday, April 30, 2018 07:46:01 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > >>> Debian documentation NOT written for hoi polloi. And it needs to be. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
