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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] Re: tslinux installation
From: Luis Ortega <>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 17:48:51 -0500
Let's see if I interpret correctly your understanding of the situation.

You have among other subdirectories /dev & /mnt.

dev
    sdcard0
       disc0
          disc
          part1
          part2
          part3
    sdcard1
       disc1
          disc
          part1

mnt
    sdcard0
    sdcard1

I do not have a TS-7300 so I am more or less guessing. The issue is that 
you have 2 SD card devices. You may have on subdirectory under /mnt or 
as I depict 2.

I am not sure if the TS-7300 mounts anything in /mnt automatically. I 
will assume not.

I originally suggested mounting your formatted partition from 
/dev/sdcard0/part1 to /mnt/sdcard0.

This is what happens behind the scenes. The /dev directory has hardware 
oriented descrription of the hardware in you machine. disc is the 
description of the sdcard and part1 is the description of the partition. 
the mount command somewhat magically "opens" what is stored inside the 
part1 partition, looking for a file system (ext2 by default) and opens 
it for you under /mnt/sdcard0. In your case just for sanity you may wish 
to create a /mnt/sdcard1 directory or mount point. If you list the 
content of /mnt/sdcard1 before the mounting it will be empty (unless you 
place something in it) and after mounting the partition, 
/dev/sdcard1/disc1/part1 (my numbering may be wrong) to /mnt/sdcard1 and 
you list its content you may see either a lost+found folder if you just 
formatted (makefs.ext2) the partition or if you successfully untar the 
file (assumming it is a tar containing a file system) directories such 
as /mnt/sdcard1/etc, /mnt/sdcard1/bin, etc.

The basic idea behind all this is that the /dev/ directory contains 
hardware description and the mount command "opens" file systems in the 
partitions and makes them available through mount points.

Once you have a file system on a mount point you may do file system 
related activities such a tarring and untarring, ls, mv, cp, etc. These 
operations cannot be performed on hardware components or their 
surrogates descriptions under /dev/

Is this the way you perceive it?


         

Elizabeth wrote:
>
> Hi, I am doing exactly what you are suggesting but here is the problem
> Im not working on SDcard0 Im trying to install tslinux operating
> system in a SDcard1 (second slot for SDcards) so if i create a new
> directory in /mnt/sdcard1 it will be created in the SDCard0 the one
> that already has a different operating system (debian sarge) so what
> should i do to?
> >
> > I have a mount point in /mnt that I created with:
> >
> > mkdir /mnt/sdcard0
> >
> > I mount the fromated partition as follows:
> >
> > mount /dev/sdcard0/disc0/part3 /mnt/sdcard0
> >
> > finally I untar the file with:
> >
> > tar jxvf <bzip2 file> -C /mnt/sdcard0
> >
> > I am doing this from memory and I hope I did not miss a step or mistype
> > a command.
>
>  




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