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From: Heiko Z. <he...@zu...> - 2007-04-26 12:59:17
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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. -- Regards Heiko Zuerker http://www.devil-linux.org |