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hello,

I have been trying to install the Easy Debian image on a partition of the sdcard, next to the regular fat partition, by following the instructions of the first post. But I have trouble with the 'mount' commands, both of them in fact.
The partition was formatted on a Linux desktop as ext2, and does work there.

this is the output of the first mount command:

Code:
Nokia-N900:~# mount -o loop /home/user/MyDocs/debian-m5-lc-v1a.img.ext2 /mnt/ed-img 
mount: mounting /dev/loop0 on /mnt/ed-img failed: Invalid argument
and the second one:
Code:
Nokia-N900:~# mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /mnt/n900sd 
mount: mounting /dev/mmcblk1p2 on /mnt/n900sd failed: Invalid argument
mmcblk1p2 does exist in /dev, the dirs in /mnt are there as well.

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

Edit: I found out what the problems were:

1. The first of Andrew's images was faulty. Either it went wrong when I downloaded or extracted it, or it is wrong already, I haven't checked. I now used the second image (the webdesigner one), that does work.

2. the partition was not correctly formatted apparently. I now used
Code:
mke2fs -L EDebian -j -m0 /dev/mmcblk1p2
The rest of the process went well.

Last edited by maartenmk; 2011-07-03 at 10:34.