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Re: [LUG] Asus eeePC

 

Henry Bremridge wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:10:20AM +0000, John Hansen wrote:
>> Simon Robert wrote:
>>
>> I am still unclear about how to file documents to my 4 gig SD card or 1 
>> gig USB drive. Is there an easy way like in Windows XP where when I 
>> "save as" get the option to save to an external drive?
>>
> 
> I presume that it is already mounted, if so check to see where it is mounted and 
> file files in that directory
> 
> If it has not been mounted
> 
> mount the USB drive as a subdirectory of /home
> 
> eg 
> 
>     mount /dev/sda1 /home/????
> 
>     Taking the command in sections
> 
>         Mount       see man mount. On mine the command is mount -t vfat 
> 
>         /dev/sda1   This is where the computer thinks your usb drive is. To find 
> out plug the usb drive in and look in /var/log/syslog
> 
>         /home/????  This is the directory where you can access the usb drive. You 
> need to create it first
> 
> And then when you finish unmount /home/????
> 
> 
> Or am I missing something
> 
> 
> 
Thanks I will try that.

John

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