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**Trio3b** · 03-03-2005

Read in redhat forum about USB flashdrive install, but not quite there yet. Can someone help?
Using GE intelligent stick.
Plugged into usb port and MCC hdwr shows device as:
new devfs device /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
old device file /dev/sda

user guide says to use mount and follow:
# cd /etc/sysconfig/ <works
# cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf | more <doesn't work ..says no directory
check dev inf in hwconf and write dwn mnt point
create directory in /mnt with:
# mkdir /mnt/usbdisk
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk

OK here's the input and output in my terminal:
[user@localhost user]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost user]# cd /mnt/
[root@localhost mnt]# mkdir usbflash
[root@localhost mnt]# ls /mnt/
cdrom/ fd0/ usbdisk/ usbflash/
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
[root@localhost mnt]#

how to create this device?
Thanks

**swemic** · 03-03-2005

What is your output from

Code:

fdisk -l

It might be so that your /dev/sda1 does not exist

**Trio3b** · 03-03-2005

Thanks for the reply ....here is the output of my query, sorry about the 1, I'm new to CL AND my eyesight is bad.

[user@localhost user]$ fdisk -1
bash: fdisk: command not found
[user@localhost user]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost user]# fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- 1

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
[root@localhost user]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 18.4 GB, 18480365568 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2246 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 765 2246 11904165 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 765 827 506016 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 828 2246 11398086 83 Linux
[root@localhost user]#

hope this helps

**swemic** · 03-03-2005

Sorry to ask, but is this printout when you have the USB flash inserted?
Because it is not avalible as a disk there.

Please send the output from as well

Code:

lsusb

**Trio3b** · 03-04-2005

Mandrake 10.0
KDE 3.2
Here is some input and output:
[user@localhost user]$ su
Password:

without stick inserted:
[root@localhost user]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

with stick inserted:
[root@localhost user]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0ea0:2168 Ours Technology, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

without stick:
[root@localhost user]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 18.4 GB, 18480365568 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2246 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 765 2246 11904165 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 765 827 506016 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 828 2246 11398086 83 Linux

with stick:
[root@localhost user]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 18.4 GB, 18480365568 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2246 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 765 2246 11904165 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 765 827 506016 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 828 2246 11398086 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 65 MB, 65273856 bytes
3 heads, 42 sectors/track, 1011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 126 * 512 = 64512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 ? 6175682 15235283 570754815+ 72 Unknown
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(357, 116, 40) logical=(6175681, 2, 19)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 45) logical=(15235282, 0, 7)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 ? 1338806 16704110 968014120 65 Novell Netware 386
Partition 2 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(288, 115, 43) logical=(1338805, 2, 9)
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(367, 114, 50) logical=(16704109, 0, 2

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 ? 14840330 30205633 968014096 79 Unknown
Partition 3 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(366, 32, 33) logical=(14840329, 0, 12)
Partition 3 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(357, 32, 43) logical=(30205632, 0, 25)
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 ? 1 28866877 1818613248 d Unknown
Partition 4 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(372, 97, 50) logical=(0, 0, 1)
Partition 4 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(0, 10, 0) logical=(28866876, 2, 36)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
Partition table entries are not in disk order

manual says to go to this dir,
[root@localhost user]# cd /etc/sysconfig/

then to enter this:
#cat /etc/sysconfig/hwconf | more
..but says this file does not exist
this tells me that etc and sysconfig exist but not hwconf, which I assume is hardware configuration?

anyway....heres what's in sysconfig

[root@localhost sysconfig]# ls
alsa drakconnect installkernel network-scripts/ system*
autofsck harddisks keyboard* nfs* usb
bootsplash harddrake2/ mouse* pcmcia* userdrake*
clock* hotplug* msec postfix xinetd
console/ i18n* network* rawdevices
desktop* init networking/ syslog

[root@localhost sysconfig]# cd /mnt
[root@localhost mnt]# ls
cdrom/ fd0/ usbdisk/ usbflash/

then manual says to mount dev by:
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sdal /mnt/usbdisk
mount: special device /dev/sdal does not exist
[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdisk
mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist
[root@localhost mnt]#

Am I close? I think I have to create this device. The Mandrake control center hdwr detection in the GUI does acknowledge that something is there:
this is what's listed when the stick i s IN.
Bus: SCSI

Location on the bus: 0:0:0

Channel: 00

Description: USB |Flash Disk

New devfs device: /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

Old device file: /dev/sda

Module: unknown

Floppy format: I-Stick2 IntelligentStick

Media class: hd (Mass Storage|SCSI|Bulk (Zip))

Sorry about a side question...newb.
What is green, red, blue text in terminal?
Anyway...Hope all this helps
Thanks for the help

**swemic** · 03-04-2005

The coloring is an easy answered question here

Default:
Green = executable file
Red = Compressed file
Blue = Directory
Pink = Image file

Back to you flash drive, is this flash drive accessible from other computers/OS? Because "fdisk -l" claims there are some issues with your partition table. Have you used it as a Novell Netware volume?

If it is a big NO from all above questions, try to re-partition your flash drive. Otherwise, just do a quick re-try on another computer once again.
Something is messed up on the partition, however you Linux finds it as a flash-drive.

**fomhoire** · 03-04-2005

try as su

Code:

mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/usbdisk

the other three (?) prtitions are unknown so probaly don't have the right file system module

the "<kernel version>" needs to be replaced with what evers in /lib/modules normally starting 2.6.

Code:

cd /lib/modules/<kernel version>/kernel/fs
ls

just check for things fat,vfat and ntfs there the normal for usb pens
if one is not there

Code:

modprobe <missing fs>
eg
modprobe vfat

if it comes back with "FATAL: Module vfat not found."
you will have to down load it first

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