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Tiny Core Base => TCB Bugs => Topic started by: Yamash on September 05, 2014, 10:23:09 AM

Title: v5.3 - Error Mounting USB device
Post by: Yamash on September 05, 2014, 10:23:09 AM

Hello,

I'm trying to install Tiny Core in Virtualbox at my notebook HP G6Z-2200, when I click in proceed to install TC it show me the error "Error Mounting USB device", and at the terminal it show.

mkefs 1.42.7 (21-Jan-2013)
mkfs.ext4: No such device or address while trying to determine filesystem size
0+1 records in
0+1 records out
440 bytes (440B) copied, 0.00000 seconds, 0B/s
mount: mounting /dev/sda1/ on .mnt/drive failed: No such device or address

Any  walkthrough?

Title: Re: v5.3 - Error Mounting USB device
Post by: gerald_clark on September 05, 2014, 10:33:50 AM

Create a virtual disk.
Attach the coreplus.iso as a CD.
Boot from the CD and run the installer.  Do a frugal install to the whole virtual hard disk.
Change the boot device to the hard drive and reboot.

Make sure you use bridge mode for the network controller.

Title: Re: v5.3 - Error Mounting USB device
Post by: Yamash on September 05, 2014, 10:49:33 AM

I tried again and I made sure that it network was bridged mode, tried frugal/whole disk sdb (I did another disk), ext4.

And it was not capable of install TC.

Title: Re: v5.3 - Error Mounting USB device
Post by: coreplayer2 on September 05, 2014, 02:46:20 PM

Try reading the tc book http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html (http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html)  I'm sure it will answer your questions completely

Title: Re: v5.3 - Error Mounting USB device
Post by: alexandroid on November 08, 2014, 10:05:09 PM

I just had a similar problem with the installation failing on a VM (I was using GUI installer though) - it would fail with a message "Error mounting USB device". Turns out I accidentally made the target HDD (sda) too small - 4MB. After re-creating it with larger size, installation succeeded with all other options being default.