Hi All,
I have recently installed FC3 on my laptop.
I am facing two problems.
1. I am not able to use my usb flash drive (pen drives.) there is no /dev/sda1 device.
2. I have dual boot m/c with WinXP and linux. I am not able to mount windows NTFS partition.

all are requested to help me out.
thanks
nandac

Please tell us the commands that you use to mount each of them
Please post content of file /etc/fstab

Check how the pendrive is recognized. You can use dmesg after you've inserted it. It will show you something like /dev/sda or /dev/sda1. Once you know what it is, try mount /dev/sd?? -t vfat /mnt/cdrom. /mnt is where media is usually mounted (might be called /media); in the given example it will mount it where usually the cdrom is mounted.

If you get errors, please post them.

Hi,
as i have mentioned i don't have any /dev/sd* device in that case what to do, how to mount usb?

and also mounting ntfs partition, gives error like kernel do not support ntfs filesystem

regds,
Chetan

You really could have done a search related to this and would have found lots of help. You need to get an RPM for the NTFS module (see this), install it, then load the module ("modprobe ntfs").

You might as well show us what dmesg says when you plug in your USB device.

I can not see from here what the output of the dmesg command is.

Sorry for last reply with any detail.
Please find the outrput of dmesg command : last few lines after inserting pen drive look like this

"
T3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
cdrom: open failed.
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda6, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 1015800k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xcf8-0xcff
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
"

#dmesg | grep usb
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
[root@localhost ~]#


output of lsmod
"
Module Size Used by
vfat 14785 1
fat 45409 1 vfat
parport_pc 24705 0
lp 11565 0
parport 41737 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 24005 0
sunrpc 160421 1
ds 16965 2
button 6481 0
battery 8517 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 232577 8
ohci1394 35033 0
ieee1394 302869 1 ohci1394
yenta_socket 18753 0
pcmcia_core 59913 2 ds,yenta_socket
uhci_hcd 31449 0
ehci_hcd 31557 0
snd_intel8x0 34829 0
snd_ac97_codec 64401 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97993 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4801 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 54053 9 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi, snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 1 snd
8139too 26305 0
mii 4673 1 8139too
dm_snapshot 17029 0
dm_zero 2369 0
dm_mirror 23341 2
ext3 116809 2
jbd 74969 1 ext3
dm_mod 54741 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
"

output of fdisk -l
"
Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2433 19543041 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hda2 2434 4864 19527007+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 2434 3708 10241406 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 3709 3721 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 3722 4864 9181116 8e Linux LVM
"

Please have a look into this. I am not able to use my pen drives.

regds,
nandac