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Knoppix 3.9 and USB flash drives
I have a USB flash drive and when I enter it into the USB drive, dmesg seems to show the system acknowledging the devices' existence. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to mount the drive - I thought it would automount under /mnt, but I have to mount it manually. I understand that it uses the ub driver, but I am lost to know what filesystem it should be mounted as.
I have tried ext3, ext2, msdos and vfat, to no avail.
I am using a Packard-Bell Club 77 (I'm a little unsure about the number) and I'm not sure whether the USB port is 1.0 or 1.1. The drive is a Maxell drive supporting USB 2.0 and I have managed to get it to work on a machine using Windows 2000 Professional at work. (I have seen three folders on it when I opened it.)
What steps am I missing? Is my hardware inadequate for the matter? (I plan on using this kind of drive for backup and for transferring files between Linux and non-Linux machines.
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Re: Knoppix 3.9 and USB flash drives
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Originally Posted by
Bucephalus
I have a USB flash drive and when I enter it into the USB drive, dmesg seems to show the system acknowledging the devices' existence. Unfortunately, I am not sure how to mount the drive - I thought it would automount under /mnt, but I have to mount it manually.
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What steps am I missing? Is my hardware inadequate for the matter? (I plan on using this kind of drive for backup and for transferring files between Linux and non-Linux machines.
It should work just fine. I've used USB drives, USB sticks, and FireWire drives to backup and restore machine (Linux, Windows, and Macs) as well as transfer data.
Try this: boot into KDE under Knoppix. Open a root terminal window and type "dmesg -c". Now, attach the USB drive to the machine and type the following in the root window:
Code:
(set -x
rebuildfstab -r
cat /etc/knoppix-version
dmesg
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
ls -la /mnt/
) >& post.txt
Please post the output from post.txt. The post.txt file will show to which device Knoppix has assigned the drive.
Regards,
- Robert
http://www.cwelug.org
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type cd /mnt/sda1
if it does not exist then mkdir /mnt/sda1
that is now the empty mount point 4 your stick...
then you must mount it each reboot with mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1
list now your usb stick content... if there is none go cd .. and go back into the dir /mnt/sda1
now it should work I am not folling this thread here, so send me an PM if needed....
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