USB stick not found on F7

Rick Stevens rstevens at internap.com
Thu Sep 20 20:27:08 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 15:22 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 16:59 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 23:38 -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> > > I installed F7 today but can't get my USB stick to mount.  I suspect
> > > SELinux but would like to hear from one of you gurus regarding this.  It
> > > mounts fine on F5.
> > 
> > Uh, did you check the output of dmesg and /var/log/messages?
> It's related to SELinux and even though I turned SELinux off it denies
> certain file types from opening.  I'll have to see if I can tweak it.

If you disabled it via "selinux=0" on the boot line or have
"SELINUX=disabled" in your /etc/selinux/config file and rebooted, I
can't believe SELinux is in the way.

> > >   Also I now boot F5 on a floppy.  I'll mess with Grub
> > > later.
> > > 
> > > Also, if I wanted to duplicate my Desktop from the F5 install, is there
> > > a file I could import?
> > 
> > The best bet is to copy all of your ~/.* files and directories to your
> > new home directory.  Make sure you don't copy the directories named
> > "." or "..".
> > 
> Worked good.  I picked out the obvious ones and copied them, saved a lot
> of time.

Glad to hear it.

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