checked how tos but......, but not quite there yet. Can someone help?
Using GE intelligent stick.
Plugged into usb port and MCC hdwr shows device as:
new devfs device /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
old device file /dev/sda

user guide says to use mount and follow:
# cd /etc/sysconfig/ <works
# cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf | more <doesn't work ..says no directory
check dev inf in hwconf and write dwn mnt point
create directory in /mnt with:
# mkdir /mnt/usbdisk
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk

OK here's the input and output in my terminal:
[user@localhost user]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost user]# cd /mnt/
[root@localhost mnt]# mkdir usbflash
[root@localhost mnt]# ls /mnt/
cdrom/ fd0/ usbdisk/ usbflash/
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
[root@localhost mnt]#

how to create this device?
Thanks

never used Mandrake, but I belive this is a straighforward procedure.

I think you're just missing the filesystem type on your mount command.

try:

cd /mnt
mkdir myusbdisk
mount -t <filesystem> /dev/sda1 /mnt/myusbdisk

if you haven't reformatted the thumbdrive, there is an almost 100% chance that it's fat32, but fat32 is microsoft... so we like to call our version vfat. so use:

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

it gets tiresome typing this in every time. in FC3 there is a utility called usermount that scans for available drives and mounts them.

Usually indicates either that the drive was assigned to a different device node, maybe sdb1, or that the module isn't loaded/didn't load properly.

For starters, with the system booted and prior to attaching the flash drive, type lsmod and compare that to the output from lsmod after plugging in the drive.