USB mounting

[rinjo]

Hi All,

how do you mount USB drive on Debian kernel 2.4.18???
please help!!!!!!

[iwanabeguru]

hi
if you are using udev or devefs the solution is simple.
in dmesg output you can see which device node made for the usb pendrive so you can mount it
or list the /dev directory

if you aren't using udev or devfs you must create the device node and must add an entry in the /etc/fstab

unfortunately i dont know the major and minor numbers

[rinjo]

i am using mount to mount usb.

basically i cannot find which device is representing usb.
my system is not supporting udev or devefs..

[traeskapa]

I mounted my USB-HDD this way, I think...
mkdir /media/usb0
mount /dev/sdf0 /media/usb0
Something like that.
Just try mount some random stuff, that's what I did xD

[rinjo]

mkdir /media/usb0
mount /dev/sdf0 /media/usb0

i tried all the combinations(sda....sdf), but couldnot mount my drive.

[chadders]

go to /dev/ and see if there are any files in there called sdf (or starting with sdf).

[rinjo]

go to /dev/ and see if there are any files in there called sdf (or starting with sdf).

well in the /dev dir, there are files that start from sda0 till sdh15. which one do i use?

[chadders]

umm, I think the best thing for you to do would be to type (this will show what devices are available for use on your computer):

ls /dev

in the terminal and to paste the results on this thread. From there we might be able to identify the device that needs to be mounted.

Edit: Also you might want to want to paste the results from this command run in the terminal (this will show what devices have already been mounted):

mount

[oaul]

My thumb drive is mounted as sdc1 because i have two SATA hdd's (sdax and sdbx). Also I dont know if this is obvious but you must specify a number after sda (most probably '1')

Is your hard drive IDE? I dont know anything about 2.4 kernels but i would think you should mount your USB as sda1 if thats case. (with emphasis on the 'a') Otherwise it might be b,c, etc. depending on how many SATA devices you have.

Can you post your fstab contents just for shits?

[rinjo]

thanks to all u guys for ur help.
apparently there was a problem in the kernel configuration and usb device support was not included.
i got the usb running by re-configuring the kernel and then re-building it.