Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problem making bootable usb key
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:30:13
Message-Id: 20090407172956.5341cfd6@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] problem making bootable usb key by maxim wexler
1 On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 08:58:49 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:
2
3 > Using as my model:
4 >
5 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
6 >
7 > to install eeexubuntu-8.10-desktop-i386-20090223.iso via a bootable usb
8 > key. Everything fine until this command:
9
10 Why are you following the Gentoo instructions to create an Ubuntu disk?
11 AFAIR, eexubuntu comes with a script to create a bootable USB stick.
12
13 > # cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/usb
14 >
15 > resulted in this:
16 >
17 > cp: cannot create symbolic link `/media/disk/dists/stable': Operation
18 > not permitted cp: cannot create symbolic link
19 > `/media/disk/dists/unstable': Operation not permitted cp: cannot create
20 > symbolic link `/media/disk/ubuntu': Operation not permitted
21
22 What sort of filesystem did you create on the stick? They use FAT by
23 default, which doesn't support symlinks.
24
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26 --
27 Neil Bothwick
28
29 Oxymoron: Clearly Misunderstood.

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