Can't mount USB drive in knoppix

[bennettg]

Linux newbie here trying to get rid of M$.

I cannot seem to get my usb thumb drive to mount in knoppix.

I am running knoppix on a computer that has windows xp and suse 9.0 on a dual-boot hard drive.


when I try to mount it by:

knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# sudo sh
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# sudo sh
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# modprobe usb-storage
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mkdir /mnt/usb
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
or too many mounted file systems
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sdc1 is not a valid block device
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdd1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sdd1 is not a valid block device
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sde1 is not a valid block device
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdf1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sdf1 is not a valid block device
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdg1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sdg1 is not a valid block device
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdh1 /mnt/usb
mount: /dev/sdh1 is not a valid block device
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]# mount -t vfat /dev/sdi1 /mnt/usb
mount: special device /dev/sdi1 does not exist
knoppix@ttyp0[knoppix]#



Help.......thanks in advance!

Newbie leaving M$

[Crusader]

I'm also quite new, but I have a Kingston Datatraveler USB 2 drive (formatted as FAT32) on Knoppix 3.3 20040209 and all I do is plug it in, and it shows up on the desktop as an scsi hard disk partition.

From there I usually right-click on the partition and select 'mount' and 'change read/write mode'.

Going into the console (as a user, root doesn't seem to be necessary) and typing
mount /dev/sda1
also works for me... I don't remember if that mounts it read-write or not.

In both cases my drive then shows up in either /mnt/sda1/ or /mnt/sdb1/ depending on which port I plug it into.

I just kinda go with what Knoppix wants to do. That said, I've never gotten my USB floppy disk drive to work.