Lost in Flash Drive PCI USB SCSI hotplug, etc.

[R. Hirschfeld]

Picking up this thread a little belatedly...

> Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 22:19:05 -0700
> From: Walt Pawley <walt@wump.org>
> 

> Getting a working foundation
> installed should be a trivial pursuit, IMHO. Likewise, IMHO, the rest of
> installation activities should work from that installed foundation. When
> the process fails, it should not leave you starting from ground zero but
> rather with the installed foundation and whatever got successfully
> attached.

Usually when "ground zero" is used when "square one" is meant it makes
me internally wince, but in this case it seems appropriate...

> Third, I suppose I should be happy that "-t msdos" works. Despite my
> elation at finally getting the Flash Drive mounted in some manner, I'm both
> puzzled and disturbed by why the "-t hfs" nor "-t hfsplus" filesystem type
> specifications don't work as at least one of them should. Or, at least,
> that's what the docs seem to be saying.

Just a hunch, but after creating an Apple_HFS partition on the flash
drive did you also create an hfs or hfs+ filesystem there (by
initializing/erasing it under MacOS, or running hformat under Linux)?
What error message did you get from mount?  Mount needs to find a
filesystem in the partition in order to mount it.

Ray