I don't have an sda or whatever tab in diskdrake..
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 07:25, Len Lawrence wrote:
> On 02 Dec 2002 19:49:06 +0000
> Azrael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a tiny usb diskonkey hard drive type thingy, and want to know hwo
> > to get it working in mandrake9.
> >
> > usbview says this about it:
> > ---------------------- snip ----------------------
>
> I have a 20 Gb Flip2Disk, USB 2.0 device, which gives a very similar listing
> under usbview. If you have usb-storage loaded as a module then your device
> should be emulated as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb or whatever; /dev/sda if you have no
> other SCSI devices on your system. My drive came preformatted as VFAT I think
> and the first step was to reformat it to ext2. If you wish to do the same,
> go to diskdrake as root and hit the sda tab (or whatever) - PLEASE be extremely
> careful at this stage - and reformat and create partitions as required.
> I found that ext3 would not take - ended up as ext2.
>
> After that it should be a simple matter to create a mount point and mount the
> thingy.
> mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/thingy
> or
> mount -t vfat(?) /dev/sda1 /mnt/thingy
>
> Let us know if this helps.
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