Jump to content

breadin

Members
  • Posts

    1
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by breadin

  1. SOLUTION I've had this problem over and over again and I finally figured out how to fix it. So maybe this will make me internet famous. The take home lesson here though is that FAT16 and FAT32 do not understand Linux file permissions. So you can't change them on the drive. Well, there's another lesson here too. Ubuntu doesn't automatically mount thumb drives with root permission. I'm going to go into a lot of detail for my own personal edification here. All these instructions were performed in UBUNTU, but should be similar on other *nix distributions. STEP 1: Mount the USB Thumb Drive Plug in USB Thumb Drive Open Terminal cd /media (This is where Ubuntu automatically mounts external media) If you can see the USB's file system (it's a folder/directory), perform "umount instert_name_of_folder" Now perform "sudo mkdir what_ever_your_pleasure", (I believe it's necessary to escalate in this area of the file system.) Here's where the magic happens, perform "sudo mount /dev/sdb1 whatever_your_pleasure" The USB Thumb Drive is now mounted to "whatever_your_pleasure" with full privileges. A little extra note here: /dev is the directory where information on all devices connected to the system is kept. So even if you're flash drive isn't mounted, but connected to your PC there should be an sdb1 or sdb whatever number it happens to be in the /dev folder. STEP 2: Install Katana The install after this is exactly as the guide says it is. Navigate to "whatever_your_pleasure/boot" sudo ./bootinst.sh Follow on screen instructions Katana should be installed. STEP 3: TIDY UP Navigate to /media "sudo umount whatever_your_pleasure" to unmount the drive "sudo rmdir whatever_your_pleasure" to get rid of the directory.
  2. I should also mention, I'm not this funny in real life.

×
×
  • Create New...