[ydl-gen] USB Drive

[rev rob]

THANK YOU so much for your help and time.
  i tried:
     tail -f /var/log/messages
and it seems my kernel doesn't support usb devices. So I'm downloading
the iso's for ydl 4.0.
I'll try that and keep you informed on my progress.
 Again thanks so much
     rob

On 1/21/06, Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi rev:
> I'll assume you read and had no trouble understanding the previous
> links I recommended to you.  From there once your drive is mounted all
> you need to do is use pdisk to wipe out/erase your USB drive so that it
> is formated for use as a LInux drive.  That's it, of course you are
> clear that you'll have to set mount points for the USB drive, a name
> and create a directory within /mnt using that same name.  So let's say
> the name you choose is charles. Then:
>
> # cd /mnt
> # mkdir charles
>
>  From then on when you mount that drive you can do:
>
> # mount /mnt/charles
>
> and that should be it.
>
> Best wishes...
>
> On Jan 21, 2006, at 2:32 PM, rev rob wrote:
>
> > Hi again and special thanks to Derick,
> >  I'm running YDL 3.01 on my iMac 233 with kernel 2.4.22. I want to  an
> > external usb drive I have for more storage since the internal iMac
> > drive is only 4.3G. The drive has some things on it from os x that I
> > know longer need. What do I have to do make this USB drive work with
> > my linux box?
> >     TIA and have a great day
> >         Rob
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