I started out playing with my new knoppix 3.3 live cd. Now I'm engaged in a fierce battle with it to make it function properly with my usb jump drive! Earlier today I had the jump drive formatted with ext2; knoppix recognized it in r/w mode and would mount it, but would not interact with it. After researching some previous posts, I determined I needed to format it in FAT16....which I did. However, it ended up with 4 partitions on it (funny, my windows machine didn't tell me that!)

Anyway, I'm assuming that in order to proceed I must be able to mount them....but I'm given error messages stating that neither sda1,sda2,sda3, or sda4 can be mounted because they are "not a valid block device" . What the hell does that mean?!!?

I fear I may be loosing this battle....I have precious little ammunition (knowledge) to "mount" a counterattack.

Anybody have a suggestion??