Mount USB Devices in DSL
 

I plug a USB device in, but it doesn't show up in the mounty thingi in the bottom right hand corner.

Do I need drivers or something?

My experience with DSL is that if you reboot DSL with the USB stick already plugged in, it will find it and add it to that mount thingy at the bottom. If you want to plug it in later, you'll have to mkdir a mount directory and mount it manually. There may be a way tell to DSL to rerun it's hardware detection after you plug it in but I haven't looked into this.

Good luck and Merry Christmas!
K Scott

Devices must be manually mounted in DSL, if I remember correctly. Try:

mount /mnt/devicename

DSL is quite archaic, probably to save ressources.

OK. I got it mounted, but I don't know where to find it. I go to the root, but do not see devices or anything.

I am trying to use it within OpenOffice.

It should be in /mnt somewhere, no? I have no DSL in front of me however. Did you replaced "devicename" by what your device is called, for example /dev/sda4 ?