Installing USB Pin Drive

bshelton · 09-10-2003, 04:15 PM

I have recently installed Linux 9 on my laptop. It doesn't have a floppy, only a CD-RW/DVD. So far everything is perfect and i'm loving Linux, i just want to know how i can get my 64Mb Flashdrive to work w\ Linux.

Do i need to get a special driver or what?

tangle · 09-10-2003, 04:22 PM

What distro are you using?

bshelton · 09-10-2003, 04:28 PM

RedHat Linux 9

tangle · 09-10-2003, 04:36 PM

If it is like a USB Zip drive you need to make a directory /mnt/pin, then issue this command at the command line. mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/pin.

If this does not work you need to load some modules. I am not sure off the top of my head what they are. After work I'll check back with you.

bshelton · 09-10-2003, 04:45 PM

i have my pin drive pluged in when i do this, and i'm i'm getting the error "mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device"

any suggestions for change?

bshelton · 09-10-2003, 04:51 PM

nevermind...i used /dev/sda1 and it worked perfectly.

Thank you so much for the help.

tangle · 09-10-2003, 04:51 PM

There are some modules that need to be loaded. I do not know them off the top of my head. I'll have to get home to look them up.

kazuni · 09-10-2003, 09:30 PM

looks like u got it working, but referring to tangle:
you probably need:
- usb-ohci or usb-uhci or usb-ehci (for usb 1.0 and 2.0, etc)
- usbdrive

just modprobe them if u need to

bshelton · 09-11-2003, 12:17 AM

i have no clue what that means. what do i need to do?

tangle · 09-11-2003, 12:32 AM

If it works under /dev/sda1, I would not worry about it. My zip drive is /dev/sda4 and I thought that it might have been that for the pin drive.

bshelton · 09-11-2003, 09:25 AM

oh ok. Well thank you very much for the help. I really appreciate it. Also, if its not too much trouble for you. Can you tell me why i used the -t and what vfat and sda are? I'm pretty familar w\ working in a unix environment but i don't know what those statements mean.

Thank you very much tangle.

tangle · 09-11-2003, 09:46 AM

-t tell the mount command to mount it as vfat (FAT32) file system. The sda is the device man. I might be wrong on this, but Linux sees USB as a SCSI device. That is what te sda is.

bshelton · 09-11-2003, 01:05 PM

understood. Thank you very much. Its nice to know exactly what you did that for so you can understand why you're using it in the future.

Thanks for the help again tangle.

oh by the way, do you have any suggestions for how to get a wireless card to work w\ Linux? I'm getting ready to go by one and i just want to know what i have to look forward to.

tangle · 09-11-2003, 01:21 PM

I never used wireless before , except for a Solectec link at work. Just buy a supported card and you should be alright.

bshelton · 09-11-2003, 01:24 PM

cool, that's kinda what i had planned on doing. I just wanted to check and see if there are going to be any surprises waiting for me.