User Feedback :: how to open my usb drive

hello guys, i am new to damn small linux
i had IBM thinkpad, an old one, 64 mb, celeron 500mhz

anyway, i plugin my usb drive (i installed my DSL onto the hard drive)
i had some files in usb drive and would like to take them out

like windows, once you plugin the usb drive, it automically shows up the folder
but not in DSL, i believed

i want to know how to open my usb drive on DSL??

thank you

You're using Linux, not Windows. Unless you use a distro that automatically handles such things, you're going to manually mount and unmount devices.

Which version of DSL?

Three options:
1. With version 4+, right click on a desktop icon. Scroll down to mount. Select sda1, sdb1, etc., depending on mount point for that device.
2. In emelfm, go to /mnt. You should see an entry for sda1, sdb1, etc. Select the mount point for your device, right click, mount.
3. In terminal window, mount the device according to its mount point: e.g., "mount /mnt/sda1".

Don't forget to unmount (and wait a moment) before pulling the device back out or you might corrupt the data.

...and if you cannot figure out where your usb stick is (sda1, sda2, etc), enter "dmesg" in a terminal window after you plug in the usb stick - the last few lines should give you some clues as to the name of your usb stick.

Hi! I have a similar problem with an older laptop. The USB simply will not mount, not with any of the three suggestions above. Navigating to /mnt shows sda, sda1, sda2, sda3, & sda4 -- but none will mount. Right-clicking on a desktop icon and clicking on mount shows only the hard drive, floppy, and cd-rom. I have gotten a message saying "device not present in fstab" i think it referred to both /etc/fstab and /usr/(something)/fstab. I tried editing fstab as root to include sdb, but of course that didn't work. dmseg says the jump drive device is sda -- but it just won't mount. Any ideas?

Outside of that - wow! :laugh:

Linux on a P-1, 165 MHz processor, with about 48 MB RAM. It immediately found both my PCMCIA cable card and my (Netgear MA401) wireless card. I've never had it so smooth going wireless with any other Linux on any machine! Nice work on an old freebie! I may actually leave it at 48 meg RAM--!!!

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I have gotten a message saying "device not present in fstab" i think it referred to both /etc/fstab and /usr/(something)/fstab.

Copy your fstab here (the one in /etc). Also copy the result of "sudo fdisk -l" with the device inserted.

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I tried editing fstab as root to include sdb, but of course that didn't work. dmseg says the jump drive device is sda -- but it just won't mount.

Why are you adding sdb(1,2...?) if it's sda?

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