Hi, everyone
I am linux rookie and getting to enjoy joys from learning liunx...
Just two "silly" questions to bother. Appreciate if you can give me specific steps...
1. how to mount USB memory stick in Debian ?
2. how to mount cd/dvd driver... it seems that my cd/dvd driver is not working under linux....

cheers,
joe

first of all USB Mass storage devices needs to be in your kernel, either by module, or compiled in. then you should be able to type
after you set up a place to mount it.

Thanks a lot...just didn't get the first step:
USB Mass storage devices needs to be in your kernel, either by module, or compiled in....

What should I do to put in kernel? seems silly enough

Debian systems usually have hotplug installed by default and hotplug should autodetect your usb-stick and also automatically load the needed kernel module. If there doesn't appear to be /dev/sda1 in your system, you can pluck the usb-stick in and reboot the computer. After that you should be able to grep some info about your usb-stick from the boot messages (dmesg | grep usb).

I have formatted my usb-stick for fat32 filesystem that both Windows and Linux understand (although Linux calls it vfat). I have created a directory called /media/usbkey and added this line to /etc/fstab :After this I can mount my usb-stick by plugging it in at any time and executing the command "mount /media/usbkey" and the files in the usb-stick will show up in that directory.