[ltp] Installing USB flash drive

[James McKenzie]

Mr. Cooper:

I just created a mount point (/mnt/usbdrive) and linked it to /dev/sda1 
in fstab.
Here is the line:
/dev/sda1        /mnt/usbdrive        auto    noauto,owner    0 0

When I want to mount the drive I use the command:
mount /mnt/usbdrive

and I get a nice icon on my Gnome desktop under RH9.

James McKenzie


Mendel Cooper wrote:

>There has been a thread her about booting from a USB flash drive. Well,
>how about beginning at a simpler level? How about just plain installing
>one of these thingies?
>
>I haven't bought a flash drive yet. They should work with Linux, from
>everything I've read and heard. But . . .
>
>Is there anything that needs to be done to get Linux to recognize
>the hardware? Any changes to the config scripts, such as
>/etc/modules.conf? Any installation scripts needed?
>
>I'm using a TP 770Z, running kernel 2.4.20 (yeah, I'm a behind the
>leading edge). This model machine has a USB 1.1 port, which means that
>USB 2 peripherals should work, but more slowly.
>
>Thanks.
>
>  
>