read & write USB pen drive??

wrangler · 03-08-2005, 08:44 AM

A newbie question - I have mandrake 10.1, what should I do to transfer data to and fro from my USB pen drive??

oneandoneis2 · 03-08-2005, 08:55 AM

Plug it in and mount it

wrangler · 03-08-2005, 09:04 AM

I am sorry but I am a newbie to nix terms also. whats this mouting procedure?

scoops98 · 03-08-2005, 09:20 AM

http://mandrakeusers.org/lofiversion...hp/t22215.html

Hope this helps

0pal_t0ad · 03-08-2005, 02:18 PM

try this out.
mkdir /mnt/msd
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/msd

if it complains about a file system add -t vfat after mount.
if that doesn't work replace sda1 with sda2 or just sda, but if none of those work, you might need to configure your kernel to support scsi and usb devices i'm affraid.

JaseP · 03-08-2005, 03:11 PM

Mandrake should probably auto-detect the USB Mass Storage device... SuSE 9.1 and higher do...

At any rate, USB drives mount under SCSI emulation. So make sure that all your SCSI stuff is installed...