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Intrepidus

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Registered: 2007-02-08

Posts: 54

[SOLVED] Mounting a usb drive from the LiveCD

I've got the LiveCD running, and need to mount a thumb drive to copy a file over. I've tried both FAT and FAT32, along with:

mkdir /mnt/usb
mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb

Which keeps spitting "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock" back at me. I know it's at /dev/sde, just can't figure out how to mount the bugger.

Oh, and a check of dmesg | tail says that:

FAT: invalid media value (0xb9)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sde.

Regardless if I format it FAT or FAT32.

Edit: got it working. Successfully dual booting Arch+XP from XP's bootloader now.

Last edited by Intrepidus (2008-02-03 00:30:32)

clarence

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From: fremantle.au

Registered: 2005-10-12

Posts: 294

Re: [SOLVED] Mounting a usb drive from the LiveCD

can i ask exactly how you got it to work?

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Intrepidus

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Registered: 2007-02-08

Posts: 54

Re: [SOLVED] Mounting a usb drive from the LiveCD

To be entirely honest, I'm not sure. I ended up getting it to work with FAT32, I think. I'm not sure if I made a typo 50+ times...or if it just started working. I did swap USB ports a few times, that might've done it but I doubt it.

mars9000

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Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Mounting a usb drive from the LiveCD

I got a similar error message when I was trying to mount a USB storage device on /dev/sdb1, but the device was actually on /dev/sdb2. That explains why it can't find a valid FAT filesystem, because there was no device on /dev/sdb1.