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On Tuesday 16 Aug 2005 20:25, David Bell wrote: > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 20:15, David Johnson wrote: > > Did Linux see it and just not mount it, did it see it and not have a > > driver for it or did it not even notice that it had been plugged in? USB > > storage should work on *every* distro, but not all will automatically > > mount the device. > > I did a cat and it (busbi) was present. I tried mount but was told it does > not exist in /etc/fstab. Mounting it as root with something like - mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/yourmountpoint should work. If it does, then you can add an entry to the fstab file - something like - /dev/sda1 /mnt/yourmountpoint vfat rw,exec,noauto,users 0 0 where obviously, yourmountpoint is the location in /mnt you have created for the device to be mounted ( I tend to go for /mnt/usbkey myself ) and /dev/sda1 is the relevant device as displayed by dmesg or lsusb I have found some kernels - particularly 2.6.10 - to be quite awkward with usb devices - particularly if you have more usb slots than the standard two. My own system has 2 round the back as standard, then two more at the front via a header on the motherboard. Plugging into those sometimes fails to detect the device at all - other times seems to take a few seconds , and can lock my system after unmounting - sometimes straight away, other times after a period of time. May be my distro at fault - but I have seen the 2.6.10 kernel mentioned before in relation to usb mounting issues. Hope this is of use, Mark -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html