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Alright, the problem is the following:

I can't mount my Kingston Datatraveler 2.0 USB Flash Drive with debian. My fstab reads the following:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#

# <file system> <mount point>  <type>  <options>              <dump>  <pass>

/dev/hda1      /              ext2    errors=remount-ro      0      1

/dev/hda5      none            swap    sw                      0      0

proc            /proc          proc    defaults                0      0

/dev/fd0        /floppy        auto    user,noauto            0      0

/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0      0

#the next one is what I tried to use for the usb drive

/dev/sda1      /mnt/usb        vfat    noauto,users            0      0

I created a directory /mnt/usb, then executed "mount /mnt/usb". Then I got an error:

Code:

mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

So... I installed usb storage support for my kernel ( with modconf ) and it loaded ok. I also tried checking out dmesg and it showed out that the usb support was loaded appropriately... but still it seems my usb drive isn't detected. I wonder why.

Im running Debian with kernel version 2.4.27-2-686.

Thanks for your help.

--Chrysalid