Thumb Drives and External HDDs
 

I suppose USB-based thumb drives and external HDDs shouldn't pose much problems for Linux? (Just checking to be sure...)


Thanks and Regards,

Edwin

They work fine. Just make sure you have scsi generic support and usb mass storage support in your kernel. If you are using a stock distro kernel then this is most likely the case.

Its just about installing the appropriate packages right?


Thanks and Regards,

Edwin

No, it is a kernel function. At most you should just need to load the modules.

Roger that, thanks!


Regards,

Edwin

btw, those usb drives are usually recognized as /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1

mount /dev/sda1 /my_made_up_mount_point

What does sda and sdb stand for? *juz curious*


Regards,

Edwin

scsi device a
scsi device b

much like hd (hard drive a)

The other thing you may want to run is dmesg, this should show you the device name of a connected device.

icic thanks! didnt know that an external harddisk or thumbdrive is a scsi device. :)


Regards,

Edwin

How to install in external thumdrive
 

i had 1Gb thum drive, i had install a slackware in it. but during booting process kernel panic appear. it cannot rean my usb thumb drive.

may deal with the initial ramdisk

you have an initrd with scsi module in it?