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Azhar.iq 12-11-2019 03:04 AM

Troubling mounting and installing ParrotOS
 
Hello everyone,

I recently downloaded ParrotOS and made a live usb from within MXLinux. I am able to boot with it as Live media, but when i try to install, it gives an error of CD-Rom not found. I found a solution to mount USB as CDROM from shell, during installation, but i am not able to mount it.

USB is /dev/sdb and i am trying to mount it as follows

Code:

mount /dev/sdb1 /cdrom
This gives an error, so i tried mounting sdb2

Code:

mount /dev/sdb2 /cdrom
It mounts, but this partition doesnot has the installation files, hence i cannot install.

From within linux, sdb1 can be mounted and used.

What am i doing wrong??

pan64 12-11-2019 03:12 AM

"this gives an error" what error was that?

Azhar.iq 12-11-2019 03:19 AM

mounting on /cdrom failed: Invalid argument

pan64 12-11-2019 03:58 AM

probably it is already in use, try another mount point (/cdrom1)

Azhar.iq 12-11-2019 09:59 AM

if it was, then i wouldnt have been able to mount sdb2 on it

pan64 12-11-2019 12:07 PM

in that case /dev/sdb1 is not mountable. Either it contains no usable filesystem or corrupted.
You can also use mount -v, probably give more info and check the return code too (see man page). You may check /var/log too.
Try gparted or any partition tool to check it.


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