Mounting a Thumbdrive to Open Suse 10.2 Error

EXNovellguy · 02-22-2007, 08:49 AM

I am very new to Linux though not a complete newbie. I use to do quite bit of Unix back in the old days.

Anway, I have installed Open Suse 10.2 on a Dell D600 and in an attempt to get the NDIS drivers for the Dell 1490 wireless card on this thing I copied them to a thumbdrive. Problem is that I can not mount the thumbdrive. I get a sindow that pops up saying "Cannot Mount Volume".

It is not just one thumbdrive but I have the problem on the three that I have sitting here in front of me.

Here is what is in my etc/fstab:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

stress_junkie · 02-23-2007, 06:56 PM

Yeah. Those sindows are discouraging.

When you plug the thumb drive into a USB jack do you enter a mount command or does the operating system try to automatically mount the drive?

The thumb drive should show up as /dev/sda. You should be able to mount it if you open a terminal window, su to root, create a mount point, and use the mount command. Note that you will only have to create a mount point once. Here is an example where you are logged on as a normal user.

Code:

su -
<Password>
ls /dev/sda*
mkdir /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

If the mount command says that you need to specify the file type then chances are that the thumb drive is formatted in FAT32. It might be formatted with NTFS. The mount utility should be able to figure that out by itself but you could still try either of the following variations of the mount command. The first example is for FAT32. The second example is for NTFS.

Code:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

See if that helps.

EXNovellguy · 02-26-2007, 10:55 AM

Well, I tried this and it worked once, but it would not let me unmount it.

As for the first question yes it tries to auto mount but gives me this cryptic error. When I tried to unmount it from a right click I get the same error. Ubuntu works seamless, this issue is really making me mad.