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PenguinN00b

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 2

[solved]USB Path Problem

Hi,

I am relatively new to linux but wish to learn a lot more.

I have a basic Arch installation with no gui.

I am trying to install a basic web browser from a usb drive, but I am unable to get to the file path.

So far I think the path is /dev/sdb1 but when I cd to it it claims that it is non-existent

However, when I type straight /dev/sdb1 it returns a permission denied message despite my root status.

Any help will be greatly appreciated, especially because I am unsure as to if a graphic browser will run without a GUI.

Thanks.:)

Last edited by PenguinN00b (2008-09-17 01:39:21)

wirenik

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Registered: 2008-08-22

Posts: 134

Re: [solved]USB Path Problem

Read this, and see if it makes sense and helps:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … SB_devices

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moljac024: No one really knows what happens inside /dev/null... it could be a gateway to another universe....
dunc: If it is, the people who live there must be getting pretty annoyed by now with all the junk we send them.

ironcitypete

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Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 2

Re: [solved]USB Path Problem

First you need to mount the drive.

mkdir /mnt/sdb1
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1

To access the drive enter:

cd /mnt/sdb1

A graphical browser will not work if you don't have X installed. For a text only browser you can install links.

pacman -S links

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: [solved]USB Path Problem

hal automatically mount's my external hard drive to /media/<name>

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Skofo

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Registered: 2008-08-21

Posts: 36

Re: [solved]USB Path Problem

I don't think the kind of web browser you have will work without a GUI. But no worries! You can totally get a GUI and browser to work fine in a few easy steps (this is a bit off-topic, but I'm guessing this should help you out anyway).

It is especially helpful if you have an internet connection, especially a wired one. A lot of wireless cards are tricky to set up on Linux, like mine was. Since the way you have to set up your internet is so different depending on what you have, I suggest reading this page to see how you should set it up. To see if you set your internet up correctly, run ping -c 3 www.google.com.

After you got that working, sync up your pacman (from root unless you've set it up otherwise) with pacman -Sy, then download X.Org with pacman -S xorg and then it's recommended that you choose a desktop environment/window manager. You can check this page for individual instructions on how to set them up. There are a lot of them and they're all vastly unique, so I won't recommend any one, but I think the most popular ones used by Archers are GNOME, KDE, Xfce, IceWM, Fluxbox, and Openbox (in rough order of general difficulty).

After you have all of that set up, you can can get a web browser by running pacman -S firefox, pacman -S opera, using the preinstalled(?) Epiphany/Konquerer that come with GNOME/KDE or download another browser you have in mind. You can also download and use pretty much anything you want after that.

Good luck!

If that is too much for your tastes, there are always easier distros. But I think that learning how to set up a system exactly to your liking from the bare bones is really worth the trouble. It has taken me months and a hundred hours (I know, I'm a slow learner) of installing and reinstalling Ubuntu/Arch and getting fed up with one and going back to the other and then going back to other again, mostly because of wireless problems.

Last edited by Skofo (2008-09-16 06:37:49)

PenguinN00b

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Registered: 2008-09-16

Posts: 2

Re: [solved]USB Path Problem

Thanks for the answers,

Looks like I need to get better associated with pacman