From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Tom Beer" Subject: Re: USB device installation Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:28:20 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <010001c1e6a2$41bbc640$0901a8c0@system> References: <20020417221621.7E4A052728@psybernet.co.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: walter@psybernet.co.nz, linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org > /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia vfat noauto,user > > but have not done that yet... perhaps i should do that now? > > I have held off because > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/smedia > > tells me there is no sda1 ( ls -al in dev/ reveals that there is no > device sd* at all - see clip below.) > > How does the dev directory get the device names? Should they just > appear? Does usb-storage do that? > You may have to create the devices. try mknod 660 -m /dev/sda1 c char-major-NUMBER 1 char-major-NUMBER has to be replaced with the _right_ value or you may make ./MAKEDEV sda1 in /dev (this may be only possible in other u*ix distributions.) try www.linux-usb.org/ Greets TOm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs