On 2022-02-13, Maurice McCarthy <mansel...@gmail.com> wrote: > When you boot the usb it creates a _small ramdisk for the installation > to run from. Your notebook drive sd0 gets mounted on /mnt. The sets > stay on the usb. > > If you look in /dev there are probably no sd1 files created (which I > guess is where the usb stick is, provided there are no other disks > present.) So drop to a shell > > # export TERM=vt220 > # cd /dev > # ./MAKEDEV sd1 (!! Do not omit the sd1 or you will exhaust the ramdrive !!) > # mkdir /usb > # disklabel sd1 > > and you should see which partition your usb device is. > > Best > >
That ought to all be taken care of by answering 'no' to "is the partition mounted" Escape to a shell and see what you get from dmesg | grep ^sd I suspect one of the drives is not being seen -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.