Try using /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 -- some of my systems require the 
latter, but some of them require the former. Go figure...


On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:53, Marshall Paul wrote:
> Rob,
>
> Thanks this is a good start. But I need a little more
> help.
>
> lsusb yielded:
> debian:/# lsusb
> Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0d7e:2315 American Computer &
> Digital Components
> Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0d7e:2317 American Computer &
> Digital Components
> Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0d7e:2316 American Computer &
> Digital Components
> Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
>
> I don't know how you get from this information that
> the device should be sda1?  Second, what file type
> needs to be entered in the mount command?
>
> I used: mount /dev/sda1 /usbdir and received the error
> "you must specify the file system type?
>
> I then entered: "mount /dev/sda1 /usbdir -t msdos" and
> received the error /dev/sda1 not a valid block device.
>
> Marshall
>
> Marshall
>
> --- Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > First, how do I determine what devices I have?
> >
> > # lsusb
> >
> > > Second, how do I determine what device is the USB
> >
> > device.  I am trying to read a memory stick.
> > it would almost always be  /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb or
> > /dev/sdv...)
> >
> > > Third what mount command would you use to mount
> >
> > the
> >
> > > USB memory stick once I know what device it is?
> >
> > # mkdir /crap
> > # mount /dev/sda1 /crap
> > // it is just like a hard drive in that it has
> > partitions
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