Re: USB device names

["Stephen J. Gowdy" <gowdy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you not use labels instead of /dev/XX nodes?

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Holger Eitzenberger wrote:

> Stephen J. Gowdy wrote:
>
>> I don't think so, they are just used in order of need. What problem are you 
>> actually trying to solve?
>
> I have an installer which in one mode should be able to do an unattended 
> installation from this USB stick by booting into unit_1 (logical CDROM). 
> Installation is then done onto the first (!) available block device, that is: 
> either /dev/hda or /dev/sda.  After installation unit_2 (logical disk) of the 
> Stick is mounted and a user-defined configuration is applied if present.
>
> Problem here: unit_2 of the stick is always the first block device 
> (/dev/sda), because usb-storage is statically build into kernel, while the 
> SCSI drivers are not.
>
> /h
>
>
>

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