Re: How to mount USB pen drive (Debian/GNU Hurd amd64)

Samuel Thibault <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:21:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.hurd.general
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Hello,

Alexander Shendi, le mer. 11 févr. 2026 04:23:25 +0100, a ecrit:
> So I've successfully dd-ed the 2025-11 Netinst ISO (for amd64)  to an USB pen drive and booted from it. The installer complains about not finding the CDROM. 
> I thought that I could mount the pen drive under /media/cdrom, but I don't seem to be able to do it.
> Things I've tried:
> * mount -t iso9660 /dev/{sd0,ud0} /media/cdrom
> * settrans -c /media/cdrom -a  /hurd/iso9660fs /dev/sd0

These should be fine.

But then on real hardware everything depends on the precise hardware that
you have, so we'd need to see your lspci output to know if rumpusbdisk
supports it.

> * Also: settrans -a /hurd/rumpusbdisk /dev/sd0 , but then realized it's probably setup diring boot

Yes, but that would help seeing debugging messages from rumpusbdisk,
whether it does see an sd0/ud0.

Samuel