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Re: [LUG] eeepc filing

 


Grant Sewell wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:56:35 +0000
> John Hansen wrote:
> 
>> I have fitted a 4Gb SD card to supplement the 2Gb main memory in my
>> new eeePC. However I have not found how to save a file to either the
>> SD card or to an USD memory stick.
>> Do any of you perhaps know of a detailed instruction for these
>> actions?
>>
>> John
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Typically under Linux USB "pendrives" (and, more than likely, the SD
> cards present here) will appear as SCSI drives, so would be /dev/sdXY
> (where X is a letter and Y is a number - usually 1).
> The first thing to check is if Linux has picked up the card/stick.
> Inset said card/stick and wait a couple of seconds, then type the
> following into the command line (if you can get to one):
>   dmesg
> 
> You should see lots of information, and at the bottom there should be
> something about USB/SCSI mass storage and details of the /dev/sdXY
> from above. If you do, then progress to see if Linux has automatically
> "mounted" your card/stick. Again, the easiest way is from the command
> line.  Type:
>   cat /proc/mounts
> and see what is mentioned about /dev/sdXY (from earlier).  Hopefully
> you'll have something like:
> /dev/sdc1 /mnt/media vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,blah,blah,blah
> 
> The "/mnt/media" bit is where you would access the card/stick.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> Grant.
> 
on my one the SD is mounted automaticaly, well I get a screen asking me 
if I want to open it in a new file browser. What distro are you using. 
It does this with the orignal distro and eeeXubuntu.
-- 
Simon Robert
www.oldhouse-cottage.co.uk

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