[afnog] UBUNTU 10.!10 headaches!

[Yasini Kilima]

Hello Patrick,

1. The USB stick is 2.0 and it doesn't matter what you insert provided it is a USB stick I tried several but surprisingly a USB mass storage works fine, USB Camera works fine, USB Card reader works fine

2. The format on the USB is FAT16 as usual

3. Version of Ubuntu, actually I don't know what you mean but I used Ubuntu 10.10 if this is correct for the question

4. I installed on an hp dc5000 desktop with 512MB RAM 2.8GHZ processor and stand alone

5. I will try this command "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"  I expected it should mount automatically. The strange thing is the USB drive will show up in /dev but doesn't mount and so you cannot see its contents.

Now because the machine is at home when I go back in the evening I will try this command and will feedback tomorrow.

Thanks for your help,

Yasini

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Okui [mailto:pokui at psg.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 2:21 AM
To: Yasini Kilima
Cc: afnog
Subject: Re: [afnog] UBUNTU 10.!10 headaches!

Hello Yasini,

On 09/04/2012 5:36 PM, Yasini Kilima wrote:
> I am trying to migrate to Ubuntu Linux but I am getting a lot of drill
> with features that I would not want to lose as compared to Microsoft.

Not directly related to your post (and this will sound weird) but if a particular OS has features or tools you MUST use and can't find substitutes for, then by all means use that OS. Even if it's Windows.

> Any way going back to the problem at hand now I decided to reinstall
> my system with 10.10 which I have used a lot of energy first of all to
> get the ISO image which at the beginning I downloaded a desktop ISO
> which wanted to drive me crazy as it was not installing only running
> on RAM with the CD inserted and I discovered at the latest moment that
> I was supposed to download the Alternate Version which I had to make
> sure I do it and get the results same day.

Not quite. The image you downloaded at first was likely the right one (though given when you posted the message I'm surprised you downloaded
10.10 rather than 11.10 or 10.04). The image you get these days if you select the default downloads is a "live" one meaning you can run it from RAM but it can also be installed to your disk. If you go to <http://www.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu/download> look at the instructions under step 4 right at the bottom of the page.

> Fdisk -l will show the /dev/sdb1 with the capacity of my memory stick,
> Now I am about to run crazy again, I cannot afford to run my new OS
> without USB stick functionality.

Ok, so what make/model of USB stick is it? How is it formatted? What did you try? I'm not sure what version of Ubuntu you ended up installing, but does "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt" work as root? and does "ls /mnt" show you the files you expect? (don't forget to umount /mnt).

If the command line options work then likely your desktop environment just isn't automatically mounting it for you which is something else.

> Excuse me for the long STORY this is to make sure That my problem is
> well Understood.

Your frustration is understood, but understand that without details for the *current* problem being solved (see above) it may not be easy for anyone to guess what may (not) have happened.

Also, like Seun asked, what hardware are you installing to? A laptop?
Desktop? Virtual Machine? If you're using virtualization, what vendor (and version of it) powers your virtual machines?

--
patrick



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