nanobsd on usb-stick

2012-06-10 Thread Reinhard Haller
an usb-stick with nanobsd? Thanks Reinhard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

How to go about installing drivers for Huawei EC1261 USB stick+modem on FreeBSD ?

2010-11-07 Thread Manish Jain
Hi, This is the first time I am using ppp on FreeBSD : till now I had exclusively used ethernet. I just purchased a Huawei USB stick+modem and I need to configure PPP for it. Can somebody kindly give me a pointer to what steps I need to follow ? I don't know the list of drivers

Re: How to go about installing drivers for Huawei EC1261 USB stick+modem on FreeBSD ?

2010-11-07 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, November 07, 2010 a las 05:31:29PM +0530, Manish Jain escribió: Hi, This is the first time I am using ppp on FreeBSD : till now I had exclusively used ethernet. I just purchased a Huawei USB stick+modem and I need to configure PPP for it. Can somebody kindly

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when someone who is not using their

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the product, he should look into it. I'm probably a bit paranoid, but when

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-16 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com wrote: And I agree with this 'Fbsd1' user (I wish 'Fbsd1' would update his MTA with a real name) that since Christer is who uses the

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Fbsd1
Christer Solskogen wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Have no idea what you are talking about. Since your using their software maybe

Re: Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-15 Thread Tim Judd
On 2/15/10, Christer Solskogen christer.solsko...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Fbsd1 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: http://www.a1poweruser.com/usb.info.htm Why does Websence think your site contains Potentially Unwanted Software? Without even clicking his link, I've had

Installing FreeBSD on a USB stick.

2010-02-14 Thread Fbsd1
Hello list. I wrote this article on the different ways to install Freebsd on a USB stick. It covers a large range of related subjects dealing with installing Freebsd and the use of an USB stick. It's way to large to post here so the link below will take you to the article. Looking

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-23 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I don't know why you shout. (?) Not shouting, just making my inserted comments visible within the old post as in different from bottom or top posting. Ok, writing in capitals is normally treated as shouting (see netiquette) or only allowed when

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I don't know why you shout. (?) Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from within Windows XP. I

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED THE 8.0 ISO ON A USB STICK. BOOTED FROM IT AS INSTALL SOURCE AND INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC TO THE MOTHERBOARD CABLED HARD DRIVE??? OR DO YOU MEAN YOU INSTALLED 8.0 ON A DESKTOP PC

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img Actually, I don't remember how I got the image to the USB stick. I believe I used a free tool from HP from

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-22 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 294, Issue 12, Message 1 On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:59:00 +0100 Christoph Kukulies k...@kukulies.org wrote: Here is some more info: The file I copied to the USB stick was ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386

Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Fbsd1
Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues? -- Christoph

Re: Cannot boot FreeBSD (8.0) from USB stick (Dell Inspiron 9400)

2010-01-21 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Fbsd1 schrieb: Christoph Kukulies wrote: I installed FreeBSD 8.0 on an USB-stick and was able to boot it on my Desktop PC and install 8.0 from it. Now I plugged the same stick into my Dell Inspiron 9400 and the USB stick (2GB) is not even listed in the F12 Bios boot menu. Any clues

8.0 sysinstall problem with usb stick as source media and usb stick as install target

2010-01-13 Thread Fbsd1
stick. I can install from this usb stick (da0)to any motherboard cabled hard drive. But when i try to target another usb stick (da1) to install to, sysinstall works normally up to the message this is your last chance before writing to the media. Then i get a abort message Unable to find device

question about installing msi netbook from usb stick

2009-12-24 Thread grimjow espada
*Hello i tried creating a usb bootable for 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-disc1 and 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly using MS netbootin but i always get this error. My MSI netbook specs are below, anyone tried installing with this netbook? Invalid* or corrupt *kernel image * *AMD®* Yukon AMD Athlon™ Neo X2

FreeBSD console weirdness when booting from usb stick

2009-12-05 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I'm booting FreeBSD 8 from an USB stick, but when I do so, the console no longer works. They USB keyboard seems to do nothing, and during the boot process when the daemons are starting it seems like there is another keyboard attached on which the ENTER key is stuck. That is, while

Re: 8.0-RC USB problem -- how to recover a damaged USB stick

2009-11-22 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Sunday 22 November 2009 04:40:27 Guojun Jin wrote: Does anyone know if it is possible to revocer such damaged USB stick? Hi, There are several recovery tools in /usr/ports for this kind of task. For example photorec . --HPS ___ freebsd-questions

8.0-RC USB problem -- how to recover a damaged USB stick

2009-11-21 Thread Guojun Jin
It seems this is more serious problem in 8.0, and I hope it could be resolved before a formal release. I can help to diagnose this if people need more information (this is destructive). I have picked a USB stick (DataTraveler 2GB), that has two partitions s0 for DOS and s1 for FreeBSD. Both

Converting a bootable USB stick in to bootable CD-ROM

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Steele
I have a FreeBSD image that I install on USB sticks to build new systems. When the stick boots it automatically clones itself on the system's hard drive, creating partitions and other configuration parameters that are programmed into the stick's cloning logic. I want to create a similar

it is about installing FreeBSD on USB stick

2009-06-05 Thread Eric Hsieh
hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD. I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick. There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about follow : first, if i install FreeBSD on USB stick

Re: it is about installing FreeBSD on USB stick

2009-06-05 Thread Fbsd1
Eric Hsieh wrote: hello, this is my first time to ask a help from FreeBSD. I have a question about installing FreeBSD on USB stick. There are so many informations about how to install FreeBSD on USB stick from Internet, but I can not find out any information about follow : first, if i install

portability of FreeBSD on a USB stick

2009-04-30 Thread Andrew Gould
If I install amd64 FreeBSD on a USB stick, should I be able to boot it up on both PC hardware (Intel core duo) and Intel Mac hardware with rEFIt? Thanks, Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
Hi, I've gotten an USB stick with 8 GB which doesn not work with FreeBSD 7-STABLE-20080811. I've googled and found that this particular product might be defective by factory. Anyone has an idea how to make it accessible with FreeBSD? In order to have maximal abilities for data transfer

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
Oops, hit the wrong reply button... On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:49:53 +0300, \Remorque\ odhia...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:33:23 +0300, \Remorque\ odhia...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for top-posting! No

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
da0: SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8.02 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ATTENTION, Medium not present this suggest defective device or USB controller/driver problems. if you can - check it on another computer running other

Re: SanDisk USB stick with FreeBSD 7

2009-03-13 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:35:10 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: da0: SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8.02 Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 1.000MB/s transfers da0: Attempt to query device size failed: UNIT ATTENTION, Medium not present this suggest

Re: Upgrade a USB-stick contained system

2009-01-07 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca writes: I run numerous systems (mostly networking gear) from 2GB USB thumb sticks. These systems do not have hard disks. To update one of these systems, I'd generally copy the thumb drive filesystem to a hard disk in another PC, upgrade it, and then transfer

Upgrade a USB-stick contained system

2009-01-06 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi everyone, I run numerous systems (mostly networking gear) from 2GB USB thumb sticks. These systems do not have hard disks. To update one of these systems, I'd generally copy the thumb drive filesystem to a hard disk in another PC, upgrade it, and then transfer the necessary data back to the

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-26 Thread clemens fischer
my problem. The kernel configuration really needs the line marked required, which builds support for the USB bus: device usb. Except this line, every usb related item is a nodevice now. The USB2 modules needed are kldload'ed in boot/loader.conf from the USB-stick, and this really works. Hans

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-24 Thread clemens fischer
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:10:23 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been committed to current yet. Sorry, currently I get build

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-24 Thread clemens fischer
Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been committed to current yet. I have FreeSBIE reliably up and running with USB2. Can you tell me what to do to the kernel

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-24 Thread clemens fischer
marked required, which builds support for the USB bus: device usb. Except this line, every usb related item is a nodevice now. The USB2 modules needed are kldload'ed in boot/loader.conf from the USB-stick, and this really works. Hans Petter: although I am not sure if my USB-stick needs

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-23 Thread clemens fischer
Hans Petter Selasky: Try the attached patch to sys/kern/vfs_mount.c Thanks for reporting. I have been aware about this issue for some time now, but the patch has not been committed to current yet. Sorry, currently I get build errors, possibly unrelated: === zyd (depend) @ -

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-22 Thread clemens fischer
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:47:54 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: [ re. a bootable CURRENT backup system on a USB stick] I am very sorry for this inaccurate information. As it turns out, only the GENERIC kernel is bootable, my custom configuration doesn't. On the bright side, this indicates some

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-22 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
: On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:47:54 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: [ re. a bootable CURRENT backup system on a USB stick] I am very sorry for this inaccurate information. As it turns out, only the GENERIC kernel is bootable, my custom configuration doesn't. On the bright side, this indicates some

Re: [solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-21 Thread clemens fischer
clemens fischer wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:29:15 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot

[solved] Re: usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-20 Thread clemens fischer
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:29:15 +0100 clemens fischer wrote: My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot. The problem had nothing to do

usb-stick accessible, but doesn't boot

2008-12-19 Thread clemens fischer
Hi, My USB-stick (trekstore, identifies as USB DISK SMI Corporation) is sliced using sade(8), labelled using bsdlabel, accessible using mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/usb, it has kernel and world, but doesn't boot. The kernel has the following USB modules: # USB core support device usb2_core

Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Andrei Iarus
Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Thank you, Andrei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Brie Gordon
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Thank you, Andrei ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Andrew Gould
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Thank you, Andrei You should be able to use the partition and disklabel modules in sysinstall. (Make sure you know the device name so you don't partition the wrong device

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 08:49:53AM -0700, Andrei Iarus wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Thank you, Andrei Just like any other device. Or, if it already has an MSDOS filesystem on it, then you can just mount it as type msdosfs and use it like that. jerry

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:49:53 -0700 (PDT), Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? Three possibilities in general: 1. Use FreeBSD's UFS file system: # newfs /dev/da0 2. Use the MS-DOS file system that is present on most sticks by default

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Andrei Iarus
Yes. Thank you very much. - Original Message From: Brie Gordon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 7:21:28 PM Subject: Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Andrei Iarus

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:49:53 -0700 (PDT), Andrei Iarus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, How can I format a USB stick in FreeBSD? The same way you can format any other disk. I usually format my USB sticks by creating a single da0s1 slice and then one (or more) BSD labels in that slice

Re: Format USB stick in FreeBSD

2008-08-20 Thread Polytropon
/da0s1 newfs /dev/da0s1a If you want to use the USB stick as a whole, you neccessarily don't need to apply a disklabel to access /dev/da0s1a. You can simply format the whole device and use /dev/da0 (which is equivalent to the obsoleted form /dev/da0c, the whole device). So this is completely

moving FreeBSD installation disk to USB stick

2008-06-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I've an USB stick of 1 GByte and my idea is to put the FreeBSD 7.0 installation disk on this to boot from and install the system in a laptop which does not have other external devices; in the past I've put already a FreeBSD boot able system on such a stick, following this recipe: http

Re: Freesbie on USB stick + qemu

2008-01-18 Thread Michael S
I should have been clearer, I am running Freesbie from a usb stick. However it is running inside Qemu with XP being the host machine. Michael --- William Bulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then I remembered Freesbie and decided to give it a try

Freesbie on USB stick + qemu

2008-01-18 Thread Michael S
small) or couldn’t connect to the internet (ubuntu). Then I remembered Freesbie and decided to give it a try, running it from a usb stick using Qemu. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2008/01/11/run-ubuntu-710-from-windows/ And the only thing that I had to do

Re: GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-05 Thread Fred Davidson
hd0, #and your usb stick can be anything after that (in my #case hd1). You can test this by placing an oddly #named text file in each of your grub directories (1 in #hard drive, 1 in usb stick), then using find from the #grub shell to indicate where that oddly named file is #located: grub find

Re: GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-05 Thread Fred Davidson
It seems like this thread isn't getting updated when I post for some reason. This will be the last one I try until I figure out what's wrong. #I've done some more tests. In my last post I had booted # from the usb key. the results of lsdev from the boot #loader prompt were: OK lsdev cd

GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-04 Thread Fred Davidson
--- Andrey Shuvikov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you copy it recursively (with sub-directories)? If yes then you didn't need to copy /boot/grub separately. If no, you'll probably need to copy at least /boot/defaults . And /boot/kernel as well if you really want to boot... Andrey #

GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-03 Thread Fred Davidson
hd0, #and your usb stick can be anything after that (in my #case hd1). You can test this by placing an oddly #named text file in each of your grub directories (1 in #hard drive, 1 in usb stick), then using find from the #grub shell to indicate where that oddly named file is #located: grub find

GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-02 Thread Fred Davidson
I am looking for some help to enable booting from a USB stick. After weeks of reading, and attempting I am at a total loss. This all began while I was trying to follow the many excellent tutorials on encrypting whole laptop disks

GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-02 Thread Fred Davidson
I am looking for some help to enable booting from a USB stick. After weeks of reading, and attempting I am at a total loss. This all began while I was trying to follow the many excellent tutorials on encrypting whole laptop disks

Re: GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-02 Thread Andrey Shuvikov
On 6/2/07, Fred Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for some help to enable booting from a USB stick. After weeks of reading, and attempting I am at a total loss. This all began while I was trying to follow the many

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Shenton
When you try to open a Thunar window to look at some directory, does it work? It did for me on one box, once, but since thing the window comes up with a gray pane and two white panels then hangs, with top saying it's in state kserel. I haven't been able to resolve this on the ports or thunar

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chess Griffin
On 3/16/07, Chris Shenton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you try to open a Thunar window to look at some directory, does it work? It did for me on one box, once, but since thing the window comes up with a gray pane and two white panels then hangs, with top saying it's in state kserel. I

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chris Shenton
Chess Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's just that nothing automounts like it's supposed to, and that includes both USB sticks and CDs. Should I post this in freebsd-ports as well? I don't want to double-post if the port maintainers also monitor this list as well. I may post in the

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chess Griffin wrote: Hello! My first post to the list. :) I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed and running wonderfully. I have built Xfce 4.4from ports and it too, is working very well, but I have one problem -- the new Thunar file manager does not auto-mount USB sticks. snip I have installed

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Chess Griffin
On 3/16/07, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Hal, Dbus, and polkit and have those 3 things enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. I also installed thunar and the thunar-volman plugin. However, when I go to the Advanced tab in the File Manager settings manager in order to

Re: Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-16 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chess Griffin wrote: On 3/16/07, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Hal, Dbus, and polkit and have those 3 things enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. I also installed thunar and the thunar-volman plugin. However, when I go to the Advanced tab in the File Manager settings manager in

Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick

2007-03-15 Thread Chess Griffin
/devfs.rules I have: [localrules=1] add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator I can mount a usb stick as my normal user without issues. It's just the automount feature in Thunar that is not working. If anyone has a fix or other suggestions I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Chess Griffin

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-26 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Warren Block wrote: mkisofs can be used to create bootable CDs with a DOS floppy image. The DOS system has to set up CD support, and the additional files end up being on that drive. See This is a problem, I think. The supplied FreeDOS boot floppies won't support USB CD-ROM drives.

Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
I have a problem with my laptop, and before Dell will consider taking it back, I have to go through their checklist and make sure I've tried everything on that list first. This includes upgrading the BIOS. The problem is that Dell provides the BIOS upgrade in two forms: (a) A DOS executable (b)

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Adrian Pavone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What about using 2 floppies? The first, your FreeDOS disk, to boot from, then, once booted, change to the disk you have put the BIOS executable on? Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: I have a problem with my laptop, and before Dell will consider taking

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Adrian Pavone wrote: What about using 2 floppies? The first, your FreeDOS disk, to boot from, then, once booted, change to the disk you have put the BIOS executable on? I don't have a floppy drive. I don't think I've even seen a floppy disk in several years, much less used one. Svein

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Derek Ragona
You have a few options: go to bootdisk.org and download a suitable verision. There are many floppy images there. For instance the win98 diskette version, when booted creates a ramdrive you can switch to, then change the usb disk. Or boot with two usb drives inserted, the bootable one and

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Jason L. Ellison
Svein, I had a situation with needing to boot into dos to flash firmware. I booted using a Freedos CD with my utilities on the same CD. I think I had to create a RAM drive to use the firmware upgrade utility. -Jason Ellison On Thu, 25 May 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Adrian Pavone

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Derek Ragona wrote: go to bootdisk.org and download a suitable verision. There are many floppy images there. For instance the win98 diskette version, when booted creates a ramdrive you can switch to, then change the usb disk. Or boot with two usb drives inserted, the bootable one and the

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Jason L. Ellison wrote: I had a situation with needing to boot into dos to flash firmware. I booted using a Freedos CD with my utilities on the same CD. I think I had to create a RAM drive to use the firmware upgrade utility. How did you create such a CD? signature.asc Description:

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 25 May 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Problem is: How do I install the boot code on the drive? FreeDOS provides a floppy-image, so I thought I could just dd that to my USB drive, and boot off of that. But I need to put the BIOS upgrade utility on the disk as well, and it is 784

Re: Flashing BIOS/Making bootable DOS filsystem on USB stick

2006-05-25 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 25, 2006, at 6:35 PM, Warren Block wrote: This worked for me with a Win95 install floppy, which sets up the CD drive correctly. I don't know if FreeDOS is compatible enough to be a safe way to try BIOS upgrades. There are some board makers who have flashable cards who use it in

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-20 Thread Dinesh Nair
On 12/20/05 07:44 Thomas Linton said the following: Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux there is also a way to safety remove -power off- a USB stick. i've just unmounted

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-20 Thread Thomas Linton
I don't have FS problems. After a umount the USB stick has still the Power LED on. Under Linux an eject turns the Power LED off. I tried /usr/ports/sysutils/eject without success (freeBSD 5.4) I went a little bit through the source of an linux eject and the *BSD eject. The Linux Verion is using

Re: How to Safely unplug USB stick

2005-12-20 Thread Daniel Gonzalez
but it works fine with eject /dev/acd0. As for the USB stick, I mount it using the following: # mount_msdosfs -o longnames /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbflash0 And umount with the following: # umount /mnt/usbflash0 (I'm using PCBSD which is FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE, GENERIC kernel Unmounting the drive causes the LED

How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Linton
My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the USB stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try camcontrol stop da0 or camcontrol eject da0 it stays on. Under Linux the eject command turns the LED (Power) off. ___ freebsd

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread ivan . roth
Thomas Linton wrote: (already Cc to him) My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the USB stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try camcontrol stop da0 or camcontrol eject da0 it stays on. Under Linux the eject command turns the LED (Power) off

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread Micah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Linton wrote: (already Cc to him) My USB stick works fine, but I can't figure out how to safty unplug the USB stick. The LED on my stick is always on; if i try camcontrol stop da0 or camcontrol eject da0 it stays on. Under Linux the eject command turns the LED

Re: How to safty unplug a USB Stick

2005-12-19 Thread Thomas Linton
Besides umount, to keep the FS consistant, I belive it would be necessary to actually turn off the USB stick before you remove it. With Windows and Linux there is also a way to safety remove -power off- a USB stick. On 12/19/05, Ivan Roth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Linton wrote: My USB

Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-24 Thread Fridtjof Busse
* Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I have /dev/da0, but no /dev/da0s1. No matter what I try with camcontrol, I don't get da0s1. By accident I found out that after I mount /dev/da0 (which of course doesn't give me any files on the stick) and umount it, I get /dev/ da0s1. What's going

Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-24 Thread Dan Olson
Fridtjof Busse wrote: * Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now I have /dev/da0, but no /dev/da0s1. No matter what I try with camcontrol, I don't get da0s1. By accident I found out that after I mount /dev/da0 (which of course doesn't give me any files on the stick) and umount it, I get /dev/ da0s1.

Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-24 Thread Fridtjof Busse
* Dan Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For me to get da0s1 to appear I use the command: cat /dev/null /dev/da0 I think there is a timing issue with my device, a Kingston Elite. Great, thanks, that works for me as well. I also found out it works if the stick is plugged in at boot time. After all,

Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-23 Thread Fridtjof Busse
Hi I've got a problem with mounting a USB-stick on FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 (and according to google I'm not the only one, but noone seems to have had the problem I have): If I plug the stick in, I get lots of Apr 23 21:26:08 fbsd kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error Apr 23 21:26

Re: Mounting USB-stick

2005-04-23 Thread Mike Jeays
On Sat, 2005-04-23 at 15:41, Fridtjof Busse wrote: Hi I've got a problem with mounting a USB-stick on FreeBSD 5.4-RC3 (and according to google I'm not the only one, but noone seems to have had the problem I have): If I plug the stick in, I get lots of Apr 23 21:26:08 fbsd kernel: (da0

Re: USB stick

2003-09-10 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 07:59:01PM +0200, Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Only drawback, which probably cannot be solved, to automatically unmount :-) when the user is about to pull the stick. Is there a detach line? Yes, there is. But it is too late. If you pull

Re: USB stick

2003-09-09 Thread Christoph P. Kukulies
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 11:57:53PM -0400, Michael W. Oliver wrote: Content-Description: signed data Here is an entry from my custom /etc/usbd.conf: device Memorex ThumbDrive product 0x9988 vendor 0x0a16 release 0x0100 class 0x subclass 0x protocol 0x

Re: USB stick

2003-09-09 Thread Hendrik Hasenbein
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Only drawback, which probably cannot be solved, to automatically unmount :-) when the user is about to pull the stick. Is there a detach line? Yes, there is. But it is too late. If you pull the stick the system gets noticed, but can't unmount it because the device is

USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Hi, I inserted an USB stick into a 5.1 FreeBSD box and was pleasantly surprised to see it being autodetected: umass0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: UrDisk USB FLASH DISK 1.00 Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 1.000MB/s

Re: USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Todd Stephens
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:05 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote: # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument This is speaking from Linux experience, as I do not have my USB CF card reader working under FBSD yet, but you probably need to mount a slice and/or partition

Re: USB stick

2003-09-08 Thread Michael W. Oliver
+--- On Monday, September 08, 2003 17:12 --- | Todd Stephens proclaimed: | | On Monday 08 September 2003 04:05 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote: | # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt | msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument | | This is speaking from Linux experience, as I do not have my USB CF card | reader