Hi all. Ron Arnette here. First time poster. I hope everyone is doing ok. I do, of course, course have a quick question that I could use some help with for anyone who doesn't mind:

I'm running Fedora 13 in VirtualBox for a class that I'm taking. I'm working on a lab that involves mounting and unmounting a flash-drive. It is implied in the instructions that while running GNOME, the flash-drive will be recognized by Fedora and an icon will appear on the desktop. No such thing is happening. And according to the little flash icon in the bottom-right of screen, no flash is currently found. When I switch to a command-line view and view the mounted devices, I see a couple that I think may be the flash-drive, but am not too certain, being a n00b and all.

Is there anyone out there with any insights or thoughts in the matter.

Thanks Guys,
Ron

check your partitioning package to see if it there. I use Gparted. Also your file manager should be able to let you know as well.

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Wow. Thanks for the prompt reply travalon. Let me check the file manager real quick...

Hi and Welcome to Linux Questions!

Upon plugging in the USB flash drive Fedora and the Gnome Desktop should be detect it-
Not sure why it isn't- BTW the current version is Fedora 18.

I'm running Fedora 17 and I have a simular issue with the USB flash drive.
The XFCE Desktop detects the flash drive but when I try to unmount it; it doesn't have the 'unmount' option in the drop down memu availiable. So I just shut down and once the laptop's power is completely off I unplug it-

Try this thread for a workaround this:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...fedora-611239/

This might help as well-
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/red...d-into-pc.html

Hope this helps

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You have to configure the device in the virtual machine settings before it is available to the guest OS. I do not use virtualbox so I can not confirm the exact steps but:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/virtualbox-usb.html

I forgot to say thanks Ztcoracat for the welcome. I do appreciate it. And thanks for your post too michaelk.

Here's all I had to do:

Gnome has a 'Devices' menu at the top of it's screen, with a usb device submenu. There, the drive had been located, but was not yet formatted to Fedora, which I found out by when I clicked on it and it began formatting. An icon did indeed pop up on the desktop right after.

That was too easy.

But thanks again fellas for stepping up.

Well done. You can mark the thread as solved under the thread tools pull down menu.

Done and done mike.

Your Welcome