Mandrake 10.1 not detecting a flash drive

[BillF]

Hi! I am new at this and I need some help. I am using a dual boot XP and Mandrake 10.1 on a laptop. The problem is Mandrake does not detect my Lexar Jump Drive (flash memory) during the boot process. After entering ?dmesg? from the root I did not observe anything that suggested a flash drive. I am also trying a Ubuntu Live CD running on the CD Rom, it detects and mounts the drive as ?sda1?. I wish to use Mandrake 10.1, can any one help me with this problem?

Thanks!

[lakerdonald]

did you try running this as root from the command line:

mkdir /mnt/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

-lakerdonald

[UgoDeschamps]

Hey BillF

here a quick tutorial that will get you on track for sure

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-26510.html

Dont hesitate to hit us back if you need more info

[BillF]

Thanks Guys for the help! However, I did as suggested and then when I entered the final mount command from the mnt dir I received the following:

mount: can't find /dev/sda1/mnt/usbflash in /etc/fstab or /etc/ mtap

I then entered: cd /etc/fstab and received the following:

bash: cd: /etc/fstab not a directory

There is a heading for both fstab & mtab in the etc dir, however, no directory for either one.

So I guess the next thing to do is to address the fstab issue. What do you suggest?

Thanks again!

[UgoDeschamps]

mount: can't find /dev/sda1/mnt/usbflash in /etc/fstab or /etc/ mtap
bash: cd: /etc/fstab not a directory

in your mount command, theres an error there should be a space between sda1 and /mnt

and in your commanf cd /etc/fstab, that also is a little mistake since fstab is a file not a directory

you'll get this working

[EmeraldStar]

Hi,

I just set up a dual boot (Mandrake 10.1 / Windows), and using the tips above, Linux now recognizes that I have a Lexar Jump Drive, and will show the file names that are on the drive, but when I try to open any of them it says access denied, like I don't have permission to view them or something (and I was in root). Am I doing something wrong?

[HARDfedoraCORE]

To give yourself the proper permissions enter the following on the xterm:

#chmod 777 /mnt/{name of flash drive}

It should be as simple as that.

You can do it!
(xterm=terminal=command line)
(chmod=change mode=change permissions)
(777=rwxrwxrwx=read, write, and execute permissions for Root, User, and Guest accounts)[/i]