Thursday, August 02, 2018

Re: How can I mount an USB stick during update / installation?

Felix Maschek <felix@maschek.com> wrote:

> After upgrading my system (using bsd.rd) I get the prompt "Exit to
> (S)hell, (H)alt or (R)eboot?".
>
> When I select S I get a shell. Now I want to mount a USB stick. when I
> insert it I get the expected log message, that the device is found and
> has the name "sd2".
>
> How can I mount this stick? "mount /dev/sd2i /mnt/stick" does not work
> since there is no "/dev/sd2i".

cd /dev
sh MAKEDEV sd2

Device nodes don't exista on the install media; the installer creates
them on the fly.

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