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Old 04-23-2006   #1 (permalink)
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I recently made a copy of the Debian based security distro "Operator" I love the distro and everything seems to work alright except it refuses to detect any of my USB thumb drives. I know they work because they are detected by Knoppix wich Operator is mostly based off of. If anyone could tell me how to fix this problem or even if thumb drives are supported I would appreciate it immensely.
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try manually mounting it
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cd /mnt
mkdir usb
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb
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hello, i tried

su
cd /mnt
mkdir usb
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

this is what i get /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
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