Actually rereading your message, INCLUDING the subject line that refers
to feisty, the others are right, this should all be automatic.
Nick Rout wrote:
Trevor de Stigter wrote:
Hi,
After years of running non GUI Debian servers on older laptops which
had no operable CD Drives let alone any USB interfaces I have now
upgraded on to the luxury of a modern retired laptop which has USB
ports, and I would like to be able to connect either flash or
external hard drives through the USB ports. However a search of
Google and the forums has left me unable to determine the commands I
need to find:
a: has the systen recognised the device I have plugged in, or what
command I need to issue to force the system to go and look for new
usb devices;
dmesg will record the kernel events, usually giving you the device
name, which is likely to be sd? (usb flash and external drives emulate
scsi, hence sd?) If theres no other scsi devices, its probably sda and
the first partition will be /dev/sda1
lsusb lists all usb devices
b: what does the system call the new device; and
see above
c: how to mount the device, I think I can probably work that out
given the first 2 but must admit I am rusty with use of yhe mount
command.
Most desktops should now do this anyway, but debian may be playing
catchup. If you like debian, why not try ubuntu, which is similar
enough to be comfortable and modern enough to do this stuff
automagically.
If it isn't done automatically then the usual
mkdir /mnt/flash # if a suitable mount point does not exist
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
Cheers,
Trevor
