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Is the thumbdrive plugged in? There is no mention of any 'scsi' devices. If it is not plugged in yet, then plug it in, run the above command again and look for any /dev/sdXX partitions.
Disk /dev/sda: 262 MB, 262144000 bytes
9 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1015 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 504 * 512 = 258048 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 3809427 4889659 272218546+ 20 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(356, 97, 46) logical=(3809426, 4, 31)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(4889658, 7, 27)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 2639255 3708652 269488144 6b Unknown
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 110, 57) logical=(2639254, 3, 19)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(269, 101, 57) logical=(3708651, 6, 50)
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 1069424 3843953 699181456 53 OnTrack DM6 Aux3
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(345, 32, 19) logical=(1069423, 3, 32)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(324, 77, 19) logical=(3843952, 8, 47)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 * 2767119 2767161 10668+ 49 Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(87, 1, 0) logical=(2767118, 3, 24)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(335, 78, 2) logical=(2767160, 6, 24)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/hda: 13.5 GB, 13578485760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1650 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 701 5630751 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 702 714 104422+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 715 1569 6867787+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1570 1650 650632+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1570 1650 650601 82 Linux swap
Does your thumb drive really have 4 partitions? If so, then you could try mounting as you were trying above, but using the other partitions. For example, mount -t vfat /dev/sdaX /mnt/USB It does, however, seem a little strange that you should get those errors.
I do not think my usb drive has any partitions other than fat32.
The computer that I am running the knoppix live cd from has win xp and suse 9.o linux on the hard drives. are these the partitions?
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