On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 20:09, Rick Stevens wrote: > Bryan Anderson wrote: > > Rick Stevens wrote: > > > >> You need to create filesystems on the pen drive. Do an > >> "fdisk -l /dev/sda". See if you get a "/dev/sda1" or something > >> like it. If you don't, you need to partition the drive and make a > >> filesystem on it using fdisk and "mkfs -t ext3" or "mkfs -t vfat" (for > >> a DOS-compatible filesystem). > >> > >> If you do get a partition, see what the filesystem type is and specify > >> that using the "-t" option of mount: > >> > >> mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash > >> > >> (that assumes a vfat filesystem). > > > > > > I followed teh instructions above, then tried to mount it again as above > > and got the same error. However....bit of thinking, I tried mounting it > > with mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/flash (no 1 after the sda) and it > > works. > > Weird. What does "fdisk /dev/sda" show when it's plugged in? > > > I had to pop the disk into a Windows machine and re-format it > > first (though it WAS formatted as FAT, I re-did it as Fat32). > > You could've mounted it with "-t msdos" without the reformat. > > > Many, many thanks. > > You're welcome. > > > Now to try the Clie with USB connection...... > > Ooooooo! Don't have a Clie, but my Visor Prism works peachy. Here are my /etc/fstab entries for a USB digital card reader (camera) and for my Clie (NX-70V) Memory Stick via USB: /dev/sdb1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/clie vfat noauto,user 0 0 These work fine for me on a Dell i8200 laptop with two USB ports. I then mount them using the Gnome desktop menu with a right mouse click to "disks" which has a check box each for the flash and the clie. HTH, Marc Schwartz
