You can find the newbie 'journal' answer to this elsewhere. The linux hacker answer:
if you look at /dev before vs. after you plug it in, you will see an "sda" file appear (I think that's the right spelling, it's sdb on other unixes, methinks - I'm a freebsd person by nature). You can then (although you may need to log in as root) execute "mount /dev/sda /mnt". There are probably other things in /mnt, so you really probably want to mkdir /mnt/flashdrive and mount to /mnt/flashdirve instead of just /mnt. Anyway, if it works with no errors, you can just cd /mnt/flashdrive, and your files should be there. Works like a charm. Most all Fedora command-line utilites (like mount) work fine on the olpc. Sooner or later someone's probably gonna flame me for putting up hacker answers on this list, but until then, I'm available...I find each generation learns a little more about computers than the last, and sugar's a bit lightweight this early in the game. I do hope it progresses. My daughter got in in about 5 minutes. Now we're doing hardcore stuff on it to stay interested. Steve 2008/1/18 Gail Nalven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Please excuse the novice question after all the technical stuff I see here. > > I am wondering whether you can use a usb flash drive. Is so, where do you > find it? I haven't been able to figure out how to pick it up. > > Thanks, > Gail > > > > ____________________________________ > > Gail F. Nalven > > N.Y.C. > > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > > -- Steve Franks, KE7BTE Staff Engineer La Palma Devices, LLC http://www.lapalmadevices.com (520) 312-0089 _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
