installing usb device

[jam3z]

hi im a complete noob

i use windows and have never used any kind of linux before.
ive put knoppix on a cd and booted from that. i would like to mount a usb device such as my n-gage or a mmc reader and the put some files on it.

can any1 please let me know how to do this please

bere in mind that ive never used linux before (i also have a german version of knoppix and i cnt read german)

(i can get into consol) lol

tia
james

[rickenbacherus]

bere in mind that ive never used linux before (i also have a german version of knoppix and i cnt read german)

(i can get into consol) lol

tia
james

I have no idea if this will work but you might try booting the Knoppix cd like so:

knoppix lang=us

It *might*get you an english verison.

After you boot open a terminal and enter:

cdrecord -scanbus

If Linux sees your USB devices is should be listed there. Then you need to mount them like so:

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

Keep in mind that if the mount point named 'mnt/sda1' doesn't exist the drive will fail to mount. Try mounting it to /mnt instead.

To see your USB drives you might prefer to use:

lsusb

[jam3z]

well it sees the device

so i did
sudo mount dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

and i got

mount: special device dev/sda1 does not exist

so i tryed

sudo mount mnt/sda1

and got

mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /mnt/sda1 busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /mnt/sda1


basicly i can see the usb device onthe desktop as sda1 and i can open it and see and copy the files from it. the only problem is that i cant put files on it (it just says it cant copy them here)

thnks for the help by the way

[code veronica]

2 jam3z

Nothing's wrong with your usb-device (although I didn't quite get what it is - is it some sort of a flash-pen?)

You're simly not aware of the fact that writing to any partition is locked by default in Knoppix. This is the root of your problem.

In KDE: right-click on your sda1 device on the Desktop - choose "mount", right-click again: choose "change write access" or sth of the like - and click "yes" at prompt.

In console:
su
mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

And don't forget to unmount your sda1-device prior to ejecting it manualy from the USB-port of your computer ("umount /mnt/sda1", or right-click on sda1 - "unmount" in KDE)