problem with usb-flash installation

fivefinger · 11-27-2006, 08:21 PM

hello!

hope someone might help me with the following:
I tried to install puppy 2.12 to usb flash drive using the universal installer. i tried both to let the installer do partition and manual partition.
in the installing procedure the program fails to mount /dev/sda to /mnt/data due to invalid argument. so the intsalllation continues without any data actually beeing written to the flash drive...

any guess?

cheers

fivefinger

chrisortiz · 12-22-2006, 04:58 PM

make sure /mnt/data is empty then try mounting it manually with:

Code:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/data

then run the program. After it fails to mount, it should continue normally

darinbolson · 12-29-2006, 08:22 PM

Have you tried installing it using the "superfloppy" option?

SML · 03-22-2007, 11:39 PM

I have had more success just doing it manually ...

Set-up USB stick with these directions ...
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/...tro?page=0%2C0

Copy contents of your puppy cd to a partition on your USB stick.
Then configure grub to point to the relevant files that you just copied over.

This is what your grub command should look something like ...
default=0
timeout=10
title PIZZAPUP
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/ram0 nopcmcia
initrd /initrd.gz

tytower · 03-23-2007, 01:24 AM

mount /dev/sda to /mnt/data due to invalid argument.

Thats the error s/be /dev/sda1 assuming it lists as sda1

SML · 03-23-2007, 02:13 AM

Don't quote me on this, but I think that usb installer is broken in 2.12. I think 2.14 is ok.
There are some threads that I vaguely recall in the puppy forums.