USB storage device access

2003-01-10 Thread Mad Hatter
Hi, I have one of those USB flash drives (http://www.cigarusb.com) and am having trouble accessing it from RH8.0. When I plug it in, the usb-storage module seems to get loaded but I'm not sure which device file has the filesystem I can mount. I tried /dev/sda? but the don't seem to work. On Mandr

Re: USB storage device access

2003-01-10 Thread Mad Hatter
16:04:06 abc kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Jan 7 16:04:06 abc kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. - --- Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 09:10, Ma

Re: USB storage device access

2003-01-10 Thread Mad Hatter
> Look in /proc/partitions. Add device. Wait 3 > seconds. Check > /proc/partitions again. Note that if you've added Thanks, that helps. It turned out to be /dev/sda1 after all and it worked fine (not sure why it didn't before). Ram __ Do y

Re: Grub on RH8.0 (help)

2003-01-10 Thread Mad Hatter
> Here are some of the facts: > /dev/hda3/mnt/winWindows XP > /dev/hda5/boot Kernel > /dev/hda8/Rest of Linux I too ran into this sort of problem, so I'm booting with a GRUB boot diskette (so it's not as slow as having the entire kernel on the di

Re: Passing args

2003-01-10 Thread Mad Hatter
Not sure where this thread originated but positional parameters work in aliases, you just need to escape the '$': $ alias hello="echo got \$1" $ hello abc got abc --- Mike Vanecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, no positional parameters in an alias; sorta > thought that since it would > not work

Laptop recos for RH 8.0 ?

2003-01-12 Thread Mad Hatter
Hi, I'm in the market for a laptop and was wondering if folks can recommend models which run RH8.0 well. I'm looking for something in the $1000-$1500 range with something like 512MB RAM, 1GHz cpu, 20GB disk and a decent screen. Thanks for any help. __