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Subject: Re: USB drive questions
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On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 09:13, stan wrote:
> I had a vendor give me a USB memory stick as a promotional giveaway
> yesterday. Kind of amazing theat they have gotten cheap enough for this.
> 
> In any case, I pluged it into my laptop with STABLE on it (cvsuped last
> weekend). It recognized the device, and told me it was a generic USB
> storage deviec. 
> 
> How can I mount this device? 
> 
> Also, when I unplug it I get a panic. I do have, what I think are, the
> correct defines in my kernel config.
> 
> What might I be doing wrong?

As root, mkdir /flash
mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /flash

Or add the following line to /etc/fstab

/dev/da0s1     /flash          msdos   rw,noauto       0       0

and then simply issue "mount /flash"