[luau] thumb drive
Alvin Murphy
amurphy at hawaii.rr.com
Fri Sep 26 14:09:00 PDT 2003
Most of you probably know how to do this, but it took me a while to
figure out how to use my usb thumb drive; so just in case there are
others out there of equivalent newbieness, here goes:
> Just in case somebody else asks, here is how to set up your drive for
> linux: first make a place to connect, i.e. mount it to. I chose
> /mnt/usb, but it could be anywhere. So, as root, mkdir /mnt/usb; then
> change the permissions there to give yourself access. Then when you
> insert your drive, your system should "see it" automagically as drive
> "sda". So the following command will mount it to the above location:
> mount -t vfat /dev/sda mnt/usb. You should then be able to read your
> files using any standard Konqueror or similar filemanager. I was
> trying to access files that were vfat of course (windows); you may
> have to specify another file system if you are dong something else.
> Good luck
>
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