Quote Originally Posted by foamrotreturns
One thing you might try is to just go ahead and mount it manually. Knoppix never recognized my USB thumbdrives. I always had to add them manually.
Do:
mkdir /mnt/usb_external
mount -t vfat /dev/uba1 /mnt/usb_external
note: you may need to substitute ntfs for vfat if your external is formatted with ntfs. It's not supposed to be but you never know.
let us know if that works.
it won't let me make a directory and gives me a "permission denied" error.

i think i've tried these lines of code before, and when i put in the second line, it gave me some root error "only root can do this" or sumthin like that