hi

i have slackware 10.0 on my laptop.
it has 3 usb slots.
i want to connect pen drive(usb flash drive) to it .
how will i detect my usb flash drive and mount it on slackware

regards

Hi nick021, and welcome to LQ!

Ok, plug your pen drive into one of the USB ports - whichever one you like the most! Then, go into terminal/console. If you are using GNOME, then just right-click on the desktop and select "Open Terminal". If not just browse your menu for Konsole or a terminal program and open it. Then, type in the following:
That should automatically mount your drive (it mounts everything visible), and the mounted drive should be found in either /mnt or /media (I'm not too familiar with Slackware).

If you are still having trouble mounting it, or trouble with file permissions, then please reply stating the problem.

J_K9

connect your drive...open up a terminal

$ dmesg | tail

gives you the device details...like device name...sda1 or sdb1 or something else.

go ahead log in as root

# mkdir /mnt/pendrive
# mount -t <fs-type> -o rw /dev/device /mnt/pendrive

fs-type is generally fat32 for usb pen drives

replace "device" with whatever number you get from dmesg

you can then

# cd /mnt/pendrive

# ls

to see contents of your pendrive.


Tux,

hi

my pendrive has been detected by slackware 10.0

thanks

USB devices are most often detected as Serial devices in Slackware. An easy way to do it in the future is to do the following:

$ su -
# mkdir /mnt/usb
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

Then you can edit your fstab so it knows to mount there, and so users can mount it.