Opengrads Bundle on Eeepc, maybe others

[Arlindo da Silva]

All,
  For running the OpenGrADS Bundle directly from an external memory
stick/flash drive under Linux/Mac OS X/Unix the device has to be mounted in
a way that the program files appear to the OS as "executables". The good
news is that this is the default in most systems for most devices. However,
for  the SDHC memory stick on the Eeepc 900 this is not the case. Iterating
with Valeria Guerra we figured out that unmounting the drive and remounting
it with the command:

% mount -o rw,umask=000 -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/D:

did the trick.  The particular device (/dev/sdb1 in this case) and mounting
directory (/media/D: in this case) may vary from system to system. Usually
you need superuser privileges to issue the "mount" command.

      Arlindo

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From: <meteo at sport123.it>
Date: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 10:34 AM
Subject: Opengrads bundle on Eeepc, ok
To: dasilva at alum.mit.edu


Hi Arlindo,

thanks to your latest note now your second package can be executed from a
SDHC memory stick on the Eeepc 900.

First it's necessary to umount the SDHC and then remount it with:
mount -o rw,umask=000 -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/D:
Then you can change to /media/D:/grads2a5b/Contents and run ./grads and
./merra

Now I must check how to automate this umount/mount process into the default
Xandros...

Thank you very much.

Valerio Guerra




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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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