USB key on IBM Thinkpad - Still no luck.
Graham Martin
gcmartin at tsn.cc
Thu Aug 11 10:40:47 UTC 2005
> m>:
>
> > Magnus --
> > Thank you for the wild shot, but I'm afraid this missed the target, too.
> > It doesn't seem to have made any difference. The USB flash drive is
> > still not showing up under Computer.
> >
> > A friend suggested I modify /etc/fstab to include:
> > /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
> >
> > and creating the /mnt/flash directory. I've done that, but when I try to
> > mount it using mount /mnt/flash, or by double-clicking the flash icon
> > that appeared under Computer, I get this error message:
> > mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
>
> I would suggest try STOP and START of Hotplug. At least it worked for me,
> when the machine truly was unable to mount anything at the USB ports.
>
Hi, If you are using Ubuntu try this, create a flash directory
in the media directory /media/flash
and a line in /etc/fstab.
/dev/sda1 /media/flash vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
or this
/dev/sda1 /media/flash auto noauto,user 0 0
I hope this is of help to you
Cheers Graham
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