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Author: Karlo Prstac
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Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] Need help with the USB stick/mp3 player
Well,i've tried a USB stick,and a mp3 player.
I have copied the dyne folder to the stick and it recoknizes the dyne folder
but it stopa at one point to boot,and when i boot from the cd the stick
isn't recoknized too.

2006/10/24, Richard Hamel-Smith <richardhamelsmith@???>:
>
> Ok, this is what I get when I connect my USB stick
> .......................................
>
> usb 2-2: USB disconnect, address 2
> usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
> usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> usb-storage: device found at 3
> usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
>   Vendor: M-SysT5   Model: Dell Memory Key   Rev: 5.04
>   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
> SCSI device sda: 249599 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> SCSI device sda: 249599 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)
> sda: Write Protect is off
> sda: Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
> sda: assuming drive cache: write through
> sda: sda1
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
> sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> usb-storage: device scan complete

>
> ..........................................................
> are you seeing anything like that?
> just after you insert the USB stick,
> type dmesg in a xterm
>
> If you get output similar to the above, then your USB stick is recognised
> If not, ...
>
> the /etc/fstab file on my system has the following entry for the USB
> stick, which
> by the way, is called /dev/sda1
>
> /dev/sda1       /mnt/usb        vfat    defaults,user   0       2

>
> This line means that the USB stick is mounted with a VFAT filesystem,
> which I believe, is the
> filesystem Windows95 originally came with.
>
> Anyhow, to mount it manually, you would use
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
>
> But Dyne:bolic does all this automatically for you.
>
> Now, I know you have Dyne:bolic version 2.2 but did you try version
> 2.1? I ask because I have come across some other problems with 2.2,
> which did not occur with 2.1.
> Perhaps, your USB stick will be recognised with 2.1. If you have the
> bandwidth, I'd suggest downloading 2.1.
> The only real difference I've noticed between 2.1 and 2.2 is that 2.2
> includes some VoIP apps. But you can always download Skype for Linux
> instead. So you won't really lose anything going to 2.1.
>
> And another thing, does your USB stick work on any other Linux distro,
> like Knoppix perhaps? Does it work under Windows, do you know? Knoppix
> is generally accepted as being the most hardware compatible version of
> Linux. It's what I fall back to if I get problems with hardware.
>
> Can you try another USB stick? Or is the problem with all USB sticks?
>
> About formatting the USB stick, I've never had to do this personally.
> But it's easy enough to do. To format your USB stick with a VFAT
> filesystem, type
>
> mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
>
> Of course, It will wipe any files there when you do this.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Richard
>
>
> On 10/23/06, Karlo Prstac <darion696@???> wrote:
> > Well i typed into the xTerminal
> >
> > [d:b]: dmesg|tail
> >
> > and this popped out:
> >
> >
> > [drm]Setting GART location based on old memory map
> > [drm]LOading R300 microcode
> > [drm]Writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs
> > FAT:bogus number in reserveds sectors
> > VFS:Can't find a valid FAT file system on dev sda1
> >
> >
> > What does that mean?
> > And can i format my stick from dyne:bolic,because i tried form windows
> adn
> > nothing happened.
> > If yes,from where?
> > 2006/10/22, Richard Hamel-Smith <richardhamelsmith@???>:
> > >
> > > right-click
> > > from the menu, select xterm
> > > type
> > >
> > > dmesg
> > >
> > > you should see a bunch of messages
> > >
> > > to read them slowly, use
> > >
> > > dmesg | less
> > >
> > > Richard
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/22/06, Karlo Prstac <darion696@???> wrote:
> > > > Well,AFAIR it worked with dyne:bolic 1.2,not sure though...
> > > > And where can i find the dmesg command?
> > > >
> > > > 2006/10/22, Richard Hamel-Smith <richardhamelsmith@???>:
> > > > >
> > > > > it means that your usb device was not recognised by the kernel
> > > > > since the usb device itself was not recognised, no filesystem
> could be
> > > > > found on it
> > > > > the message suggests you look into the output of the dmesg command
> to
> > > see
> > > > > if
> > > > > that can help
> > > > > so post the output from the dmesg command and maybe someone can
> > > indicate
> > > > > what
> > > > > you need to do
> > > > >
> > > > > did this particular usb device work with any previous versions of
> > > > > dyne:bolic?
> > > > >
> > > > > Richard
> > > > >
> > > > > On 10/22/06, Karlo Prstac <darion696@???> wrote:
> > > > > > Hey I get this message when i try to acces my usb in dyne:bolic
> 2.2:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Mounting /mnt/usb
> > > > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
> > > > > >        missing codepage or other error
> > > > > >        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> > > > > >        dmesg | tail  or so
> > > > > > Mount failed

> > > > > >
> > > > > > Done
> > > > > > There was one error.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > What does that mean?
> > > > > > Please help fast!
> > > > > > --
> > > > > > Karlo Prstac
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Use dyne:bolic!
> > > > > >
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> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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