Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri April 18 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > It is bootable, it does have puppy linux on it, but it also contains > > files that I transfer around.. > > right. some people running gnome (maybe kde, I don't know) will set > the system to auto-open new media when it's inserted, perhaps that

Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:06:04AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu April 17 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy > > > linux on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat ( > > > I think). When I in

Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri April 18 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Could it be a hardware problem? Try inserting the usb stick into > different ports and see. Also try a different usb stick dd'd from the > troublesome one. the only other stick I have is a 2Gb Sandisk cruiser with U3 technology. I don't want to wip

Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-18 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu April 17 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy > > linux on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat ( > > I think). When I insert that stick into my Debian Etch computer, the > > computer reboots. O

Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-18 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Paul Cartwright wrote: I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy linux on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat ( I think). When I insert that stick into my Debian Etch computer, the computer reboots. Once it comes back up, it reads the USB s

Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:18:06AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy linux > on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat ( I think). > When I insert that stick into my Debian Etch computer, the computer rebo

Re: insert USB stick, Debian crash

2008-04-17 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/17/08 09:18, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy linux > on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat ( I think). > When I insert that stick into my Debian Etch com