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Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue Mode?

From Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue Mode?
Date 2021-07-15 21:00 +0200
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Hello David,

Nice to hear from you again.

> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2021 at 4:05 PM
> From: "David Wright" <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue Mode?
>
> Presumably given as root.
>
A definite yes because I chose to mount /dev/perfect-vg/root as a root file system in Rescue Mode.

> > The error message is:
> >
> > mount: /media/myusb: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or mount point busy
>
> Type:
> $ ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/
> to see what the kernel called your stick. Debian installers have LABELs.

root@perfect:/# ls -l /dev/disk/by-label/
Total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jul 15 17:00 'Debian\x20testing\x20amd64\x201' --> ../../sdb1
root@perfect:/#

>
> > Below are the results of cat /etc/fstab
> >
> > <file system>                  <mount point>  <type>   <options>    <dump>   <pass>
> > /dev/mapper/perfect--vg-root   /              ext4     errors-remount-ro   0   1
> > /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation
>
> There's a # before that line
>
Which line please?

> > UUID=A30E-2C33    /boot/efi     vfat    umask=0077      0      1
> > /dev/mapper/perfect--vg-swap    none       swap    sw   0      0
> > /dev/sr0      /media/cdrom0     udf, iso9660 user, noauto   0  0
> > /media/myusb
>
> That line looks spurious. If you put it there, I would remove it for
> the time being.
>
Did you mean /media/myusb ?

> When you mount a USB stick as root, you don't need
> an entry in fstab, but you do need to create a mount point first.

I didn't know that I didn't need to create an entry in fstab if I mount a USB stick as root.

> Of course, this has been done for you as a convenience: there is
> a /mnt directory specifically for temporarily mounting a device.
>
root@perfect:/# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mount: /mnt: /dev/sdb1 already mounted or mount point busy
root@perfect:/#

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How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 11:50 +0200
  Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-15 12:00 +0200
    Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-15 13:10 +0200
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    Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 14:00 +0200
      Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-15 14:00 +0200
        Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-15 17:50 +0200
          Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 20:40 +0200
            Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-15 21:10 +0200
              Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 22:20 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-15 22:30 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-16 06:50 +0200
        Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 20:10 +0200
          Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-15 20:30 +0200
            Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 20:40 +0200
              Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-15 21:10 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 22:20 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-16 07:10 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-21 13:30 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-21 13:50 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-21 13:50 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2021-07-21 21:20 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-27 09:30 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-07-27 10:20 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-27 13:40 +0200
            Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-15 20:50 +0200
              Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 21:10 +0200
                Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue Mode? David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2021-07-16 07:50 +0200
  Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 13:40 +0200
  Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-15 18:10 +0200
    Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 21:00 +0200
      Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue Mode? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2021-07-15 21:40 +0200
        Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Stella Ashburne <rewefie@gmx.com> - 2021-07-15 22:20 +0200
          Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-16 06:50 +0200
      Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-16 06:50 +0200
        Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-16 13:40 +0200
          Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-07-16 17:20 +0200
            Re: How do I mount the USB stick containing the installer in Rescue  Mode? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-16 18:00 +0200

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