how to make YDL reconize an Usb drive

[Norberto Quintanar]

On Aug 12, 2005, at 1:50 PM, Miguel A. Alvarez wrote:
> 
> >     I have a iMac G3 233MHZ and I would like t find out how to
> make it 
> > to reconized and mount it.  Any suggestions...

Try this:

Everything is done as “root”. Some thumb drives will 
be supported and some will not. Go check:
<http://www.linuxhardware.net/> and see if your thumb 
drive is listed.


First plug your usb card reader and to make sure your 
device was detected go to: 
System Tools > Hardware Browser > 
enter root password 
and it will display your hardware information then go to: 
> Hard Drives and it should be listed under /dev/sda.

Open a terminal

[tuxrox at localhost tuxrox]$ cd /mnt/ <-as user cd yourself 
to the mnt folder and become root to create directory
[tuxrox at localhost mnt]$ su
Password: ****************
[root at localhost mnt]# mkdir usbflash <- this created a 
directory in the mnt folder

[root at localhost mnt]# ls /mnt/ <-this command listed all 
my directories the mnt folder
cdrom cdrom1 floppy usbflash

[root at localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash <-this 
is the command to mount flash card reader

[root at localhost mnt]# ls usbflash <-this listed all the 
info in my usb flash card and this was the output:
My Stuff

then i just copied this to my home folder and i was done!

[root at localhost mnt]# umount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash <-this 
unmounted my usb flash card
umount: /dev/sda1: not mounted
[root at localhost mnt]# exit
[tuxrox at localhost mnt]$

Norberto
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