Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread Mauricio
Everything is cool. Message #5 indicates that a solution was found. Message #6, which was submitted prior to #5, somehow ended up being posted after it predecessor, leading readers to believe that there still was a problem. Everything works now. Thanks to everybody for the support. I really app

Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread Mauricio
It works!! Running (as root) "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb" did the trick. Thanks D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread Christian-M. Bausch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Based on input from Kfir Lavi and Ken Kasina, I've tried the following ... but it still does not work. I ran 'fdisk -l /dev/sda', which verified that the device is sda and formatted as FAT16. I created a directory /mnt/usb and ran 'mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb', which faile

Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On 3 Jan 2006 11:16:53 -0800 "Mauricio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Running 'sudon mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb' returned the following > error: > > "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing > codepage or other error" > > What is the output of "sudo fdisk /dev/sda" ?

Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread Mauricio
Running 'sudon mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usb' returned the following error: "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda, missing codepage or other error" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread D. Frye
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 11:04:02AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: } On 3 Jan 2006 10:38:15 -0800 } [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } } > Based on input from Kfir Lavi and Ken Kasina, I've tried the following } > ... but it still does not work. } > } > I ran 'fdisk -l /dev/sda', which verified that the de

Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On 3 Jan 2006 10:38:15 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Based on input from Kfir Lavi and Ken Kasina, I've tried the following > ... but it still does not work. > > I ran 'fdisk -l /dev/sda', which verified that the device is sda and > formatted as FAT16. > > I created a directory /mnt/usb and r

Re: Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread mcornejo
Based on input from Kfir Lavi and Ken Kasina, I've tried the following ... but it still does not work. I ran 'fdisk -l /dev/sda', which verified that the device is sda and formatted as FAT16. I created a directory /mnt/usb and ran 'mount /dev/sda /mnt/usb', which failed and asked that the filesys

Newbie: Can't mount USB flash drive on 'Sarge'

2006-01-03 Thread mcornejo
I am a newbie and could use some help. I've recently upgraded a Dell Inspiron 3800 from Win98 to Debian's "Sarge" release with CD images 1 through 4. I can't figure out how to mount the USB stick (FAT formatted). I'm running a 2.4 kernel. I've verified that it's not a hardware issue ... I ran a