Toshiba Sattelite made to work with USB Stick

[drmarathe]

Using Toshiba Sattelite Notebook with Knoppix and USB Stick
(My USB Stick is Transcend Jetflash 128 MB)

The way to start Toshiba Laptop is use knoppix26 at boot.
(the older version gives problem with the USB Stick)
then login as root shell

#mkdir /mnt/usb (any name will do instead of usb)
#mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb

# change the root password (pick any with the passwd command)
(some password is required
for starting the file manager in superuser mode)

(I am doing this as I haven't yet figured how to allow other users
rights to copy things from the /mnt/usb
If you don't use it it says things like 'doesn't exist'
I have tried changing the rights of /mnt/usb with
#chmod -R a+rwx /mnt/usb
But that doesn't work !!!

Therefore Start the File manager in Superuser mode
Then use multiple tabs. Set one for desktop and another for /mnt/usb
Then you can copy things between the USB Stick and the desktop
This works.

Then run kxconfig with Alt-F2
This also requires root password
Then you can change the Toshiba screen size to 1024x768. Which is full size.

Then you are in shape. Sometime the modem dialer pppd gives problems
with the USB Stick mounted. If that be the case
# Umount /mnt/usb
And run the modem dialer

Want to thank all the Knoppix and Linux freeware coders
for their time and making my Toshiba again useful
With a crashed Harddisk controller.
Particular thanks to Klaus Knopper

Dr. Marathe

[OErjan]

insert this line in your /etc/fstab.

/dev/sda /mnt/usb vfat user,gid=users,noauto,noatime,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=000,rw 0 0
the sda might have to be sda1, sdb1 sdbor sda2...

dmesg|grep sd might help you there
there the folowing "oddities" are noteworthy in the line above.
user --> user is alowed to mount
gid=users -->group users are owner
noauto --> does not get mounted at boot.
noatime --> no unecesary disc activity (flash disks "wear" every time you read/write to/from them)
iocharset=iso8859-1 --> gives me ÅÄÖåäö... (special northern european caracters) your string might be different.
umask=000 --> alows everyone read write acess
rw --> mounts disk read write.