usb memory stick

**Chris H** · 09-08-2003

Help!

Trying to get a usb memory stick working on RH9

As root mkdir /mnt/intelli

Add to fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/intelli vfat user,noauto 0 0

Logout and login and it seems to work. But as read only. Permissions on /dev/sda1 and /mnt/intelli are set to read only except for root. None of these can be changed as root. Says I don't have permission.

Any ideas?

**kriss** · 09-08-2003

you could add uid=youruid to it, so everything will be owned by you ?

**Chris H** · 09-08-2003

Could do.

/dev/sda1 /mnt/intelli vfat uid=chris,noauto 0 0 ??????

That look right?

**Chris H** · 09-25-2003

I'm nearly at a stage where I can prostrate meself before me pc running red hat 9 and worship it's mighty perfection...................

.........aside from this problem with the memory stick.

I know that this works in Mandrake 9.1 cos I had it working on an installation meself. Anyone got the same on mdk where you could perhaps post yer fstab?

Ta.

**flw** · 09-25-2003

This fstab is from dual boot of xp/suse 8.2 hopefully it helps

/dev/hda4 / reiserfs defaults 1 1

/dev/hda5 /windows/D/ vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=iso8859-1,code=437 0 0

/dev/hda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0

devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0

/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec
0 0

**Hko** · 10-17-2003

Have you verified that all modules are loaded?

modprobe uhci
modprobe usb-uhci
modprobe usb-ohci
modprobe sd_mod
modprobe usb-storage

**Chris H** · 10-18-2003

bash: modprobe: command not found

Running as superuser, not logged in as root.

**kriss** · 10-18-2003

do this:

Code:

su -

note: the "-" is important because if you don't use that, the paths etc will not be updated

**johngrinham** · 11-17-2003

I couldn't get my usb flash drive to mount with sda1,
but I did with sda

I used: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/thumb

I am using JAMD, RH9 (shrike) kernel 2.4.20-9
Why is it so ???

**Chris H** · 11-17-2003

Originally Posted by johngrinham

I couldn't get my usb flash drive to mount with sda1,
but I did with sda

I used: mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/thumb

I am using JAMD, RH9 (shrike) kernel 2.4.20-9
Why is it so ???

Interesting John. Can you read & write to it though?

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