Hi,

when i plug my flash memory, and my external HD on my laptop, it don't respond. it have light on it and it doesnt work.

i have two partitions on my internal HD. XP and Fedora. hda1 , hda2.

i tried mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb1 /mnt
and
mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt

but nothing happen , its say bad superblock.

how can i know what /dev is used by the flash memory and the external HD, and mount them.

also for the NTFS file system , i read that knoppix have captive on it. i use the latest version of knoppix and i cant found it on it !

thankx alote

sorry for my English

i see two problems here:

1st you are trying to mount two devices on the same mount point (/mnt). you can't do this. secondly the command for msdos should be:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

presuming you have created /mnt/usb 1st.

i also doubt that the usb device is being created as '/dev/hdb1'. i would get it would be something like /dev/sda1/2 or /dev/uba1/2

1/2 being 1 or 2.

when you plug them in try doing 'dmesg |tail'. one of the easiest ways to find out, if you are running udev, is to plug the device in and type 'ls -lsrt /dev/'. and you will get the name of the last created device...

satient , i was given example . i know that i cant mount two partitions on one mounted point.

/dev/hdb1 this is an external HD its show like hdb1 on fedora.

the flash memory doesn't start lighting.

what version of knoppix is it?

4.0.2 the latest one

i think the problem from "hotplug"

is hald running?

ps -ef|grep -i hald

yep its run

hal won't mount ntfs thought, to the best of my knowledge...

no my friend, for the my internal HD NTFS it mount it but with read only permission.