i have slack 10.1
i am not really a newbie
but thing is that i have never used a flash usb drive before
so any idea how can i mount that

depends on your kernel version.

but basically once the device gets created you can issue the mount command.

say its /dev/sda1

then 1st make a mount point "mkdir /mnt/usbstick" "chmod 777 /mnt/usbstick"

then "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick"


look at dmesg when you plug the device in. you can also add a permanent entry to /etc/fstab

Default slack 10.1 uses the low performance usb drivers instead of scsi (see if # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB is set in the kernel config file), so it might be something like /dev/uba1 instead of /dev/sda1.

I had to edit my /etc/fstab to include the usb line, and now I can manually mount it, but how do I get it to automatically mount when I plug it in. I am running 10.2 and I tend to do everything from the command line instead of running X.

For automatic mounting check out submount:

http://submount.sourceforge.net/

(but what's wrong with manual mounting anyway?)

Nothing's wrong with it, but I wold like to be able to mount my external HD just by plugging it in. I mean, isn't that what Hotplug is for?

in that case you need to get Hal - hardware abstraction layer. I believe this also requires dbus.

http://www.linuxpackages.net/pkg_details.php?id=7730

Not really, hotplug allows you to use devices immediately, without configuring or rebooting, it has nothing to do with how you use them. As soon as you plug in your external HD, hotplug makes sure it can be mounted, but it doesn't mount it for you.

With submount, you'll have a deamon running in the background which checks whether you plug something in and, if possible, mounts it for you and opens your file browser. My experience is that it's much faster to manually mount it (cli) and use the ls command to check the content.

I primarily use cli so would submount work there? I don't have to have it work like that, though, so I'm not to worried about it.

How can you figure out what device your flash drive is assigned to, anyway? Yesterday I figured out that it was sdd1 by fdisking randomly, but today it's not sdd1 anymore.

try fdisk -l

thanks a lot!

andeity <<

I can't get my usb flash working.
What do I need in kernel?
I have usb support, usb storage, scsi disk support, all built-in.
Do I need hotplug? I tried to load Linux with flash inside the usb port, but still no success.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb_flash doesn't work for me, as well as mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb_flash
What to do?

Thanks.

Could you be a bit more specific in what you mean when you say mounting doesn't work, please? What happens when you try to mount? Error messages? If so, what are they?