Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] USB Install fails?? DL1.2.13

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Wed, April 25, 2007 12:48, ne...@co... wrote:
> So I'm running out of time to get my firewall working, (please see
> earlier threads referencing telnet clients etc...)
>
> I decided to try installing the current release of DL.  Unfortunately, I
> seem to run into a snag I can't seem to get around.
>
> When I run the install-on-usb script, I choose syslinux, cramfs and set
> up a usb drive with 2 FAT16 (type 06) just as it asks for.  Right after
> mkdosfs is called, the script tries to call: mount -t vfat ....
>
> Which fails with the error:
> mount: unknown filesystem type `msdos`
>
>
> It is important to note that if I run this command outside of the script,
> it works just fine. I've formatted the drive , zero'd the drive with dd
> if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda and created the partitions with cfdisk and fdisk
> with no improvement.
>
>
> Any suggestions?

Did you format the partitions with vfat?
You can also try using grub and ext2 as the main file system.

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Regards
  Heiko Zuerker
  http://www.devil-linux.org