hi i have just installed a live version of knoppix live which was spechally made with pre installed biology and genetics software on to my pc,, the live version has all the stuff working including usb date storage flash drive support as well as internet and otheres..

whe i managed to install, i lost the internet connection but iu found how to restore this , however i still know nothing of how to get the usb flash drive working, i plug one in and nothing happens?

i try to look at the drive by clicking on the icon and i get this message:-

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /mnt/flash

any i deas?... i tryed the manual mountm but i could have got that wrong!.. i dont under sand why on the live edition it worked but after installation it stops working.. please could some body help with making by flash drive to work.

i have looked round the site i thin kthat this data may be help full

root@box:/home/user# sudo cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 none swap defaults 0 0
root@box:/home/user#

oot@box:/home/user# sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1044 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 662 5317483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 663 917 2048287+ 82 Linux swap
root@box:/home/user#