[H-GEN] using a USB thumbrive with Linux

[David]

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The drive was plugged in (and recognized by Windows in VMWare, but said it was 
being used by the host, so I figured I was half way there) but wasn't sure 
about the mounting procedure for something like this. As I mentioned, I'm a 
bit new at this.  I had a look at the usb devices that were present as best I 
could, but hesitated to mess about too much because it's not mine.

I've since discovered that it has a Windows program on it that you have to run 
to put in a password and unlock it. I expect I can change the password to 
nothing, not sure. I'll have it at home again tomorrow night so will try 
again.

thanks
David
 
 El Sáb 27 Sep 2003 06:59 AM, Sandra Milne escribió:
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> David wrote:
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> > Hi all
> >
> > I have access to a 512M JetFlash USB thumbdrive that I'd like to use with
> > Linux. I've never tried to do anything like this before on Linux.
> >
> > I did modprobe usb-storage as suggested by a website that I found (brave
> > person that I am...) but I'm wondering if because this has been formatted
> > on a Windows box (and I can r/w it on my Windows box) it's unsuitable for
> > Linux.
>
> And what did you do after that??? Did you plug the drive in? Did you
> attempt to mount it?
>
> I use these types of drive all the time in linux. Works great. Plug it
> in, mount /dev/sda0 and off you go. Great for getting network drivers
> onto a system that requires drivers not in a kernel (e.g. nforce chipset
> drivers).
>
> Unfortunately I only have a 16meg drive so getting updated kernel onto a
> system usually requires getting the network drivers on first or burning
> a rw cd.
>
> Sandra.

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