Troubles with gnome-format
I was using a geekstick (Sandisk Cruzer 4 GB) when the power went out suddenly. It doesn't boot any more. My thought was to format it, and re-install the bootable Crunchee (clone of crunchbang linux) that it had before. Inserted into this machine, it automounts, and Properties shows it as /media/disk. When I try to format it, either to FAT or to ext2, it pops up an error saying permission is denied -- for /dev/sdc I ran both chown -r btth:btth both against /media/disk and against /dev/sdc; it seemed to complete normally (or at least, without any message) both times. But gnome-format still fails, still with the same error. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Troubles with gnome-format
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 14:37 +, Beartooth wrote: I was using a geekstick (Sandisk Cruzer 4 GB) when the power went out suddenly. It doesn't boot any more. My thought was to format it, and re-install the bootable Crunchee (clone of crunchbang linux) that it had before. Inserted into this machine, it automounts, and Properties shows it as /media/disk. When I try to format it, either to FAT or to ext2, it pops up an error saying permission is denied -- for /dev/sdc Use /dev/sdc1. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
Re: Troubles with gnome-format -- Aaarrgghhh
On Sat, 23 May 2009 10:26:41 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 14:37 +, Beartooth wrote: [] Inserted into this machine, it automounts, and Properties shows it as /media/disk. When I try to format it, either to FAT or to ext2, it pops up an error saying permission is denied -- for /dev/sdc Use /dev/sdc1. When I do that, I no longer get the error message; but noting visible happens; and when I look again at the stick, it still shows the same content as before. I tried (several times) using liveusb-creator, figuring that would wipe at least enough. It kept telling me (among a variety of other errors) that it found no live image -- on .isos that I know are, and that I have used as live CDs. Finally I tried F10-Beta-i686-Live.iso, just to get one with live right in the name. It seemed to take that, and got as far as 96%; next time I looked, liveusb-creator looked as if it had just been launched. No report of success or anything else. I unmounted, re-mounted, and started looking for something readable. /boot/grub/menu.lst says Eeedora! That's neither what got zapped nor what I was trying to install -- I suppose it must be left over from the rest of the stick after Cruncheee I unmounted and removed it, and willpresently try booting the EeePC from it. Stay tuned. -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
