Sammy, if you're somewhat new to Linux, the Linux Documentation Project (
http://tldp.org ), can be a wealth of information and great resource to
start with! in addition to googling for your question.

IMH, your question appears very open and broad depending on the issues
involved based on the number of tldp.org howto articles (
):

( updated in
May06)

If the above links don't help, reply further clarifying the exact issue.

Tim

8/30/08, Sammy Msafiri <sammy (AT) somak-nairobi (DOT) comwrote:

Hi guys, I have installed red hat linux 9.0
I have configured network card.
What I need to know is how to configure internet connection.
Please advice am not very new to Linux but kind of hit a snag.
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Hi everyone,
I cannot detect my usb flash drive. It works fine on my windows, but I
don't see it when I use it on my linux box. Does it need to be mounted
in /etc/fstab?
Many thanks for any advice.
Paula

not sure this is the right forum, but you need to know what device it
is being picked up as. Try checking /var/log/messages when you insert
the USB stick and it will say what it gets mapped as.

Usually my usb stick is /dev/sda and there is 1 partition. So in fstab I
would have an entry like:
/dev/sda1/mnt/usbext3defaults 0 0
(this is assuming an ext3 partition or you could replace with vfat. This
is also assuming you want it mounted at /mnt/usb.)

you could manually mount from commandline as: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1
/mnt/usb

Message
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Behalf Paula J. Lindsay
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:08 AM
To: Red Hat Network Users List
Subject: [rhn-users] cannot detect usb drive

Hi everyone,
I cannot detect my usb flash drive. It works fine on my windows, but I
don't see it when I use it on my linux box. Does it need to be mounted
in /etc/fstab?
Many thanks for any advice.
Paula

Thank you Cameron. Your advice was fantastic.
Many thanks,
Paula

Kennedy, Cameron wrote:

not sure this is the right forum, but you need to know what device it
>is being picked up as. Try checking /var/log/messages when you insert
>the USB stick and it will say what it gets mapped as.
>
>Usually my usb stick is /dev/sda and there is 1 partition. So in fstab I
>would have an entry like:
>/dev/sda1/mnt/usbext3defaults 0 0
>(this is assuming an ext3 partition or you could replace with vfat. This
>is also assuming you want it mounted at /mnt/usb.)
>
you could manually mount from commandline as: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1
>/mnt/usb
>
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Behalf Paula J. Lindsay
>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:08 AM
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>Subject: [rhn-users] cannot detect usb drive
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>Hi everyone,
>I cannot detect my usb flash drive. It works fine on my windows, but I
>don't see it when I use it on my linux box. Does it need to be mounted
>in /etc/fstab?
>Many thanks for any advice.
>Paula
>

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Hi paula,

This is rajan again
chk if ur file system in usb states thats its windows formated i.e. mount
via. vfat or ext3 is fine for /etc/fstab
file.

Cheers.

Rajan Mithani
RHCE
IBM INDIA.
+919916327797

5/15/07, Paula J. Lindsay <paula (AT) scripps (DOT) eduwrote:

Thank you Cameron. Your advice was fantastic.
Many thanks,
Paula

Kennedy, Cameron wrote:

not sure this is the right forum, but you need to know what device it
>is being picked up as. Try checking /var/log/messages when you insert
>the USB stick and it will say what it gets mapped as.
>
>Usually my usb stick is /dev/sda and there is 1 partition. So in fstab I
>would have an entry like:
>/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb ext3 defaults 0 0
>(this is assuming an ext3 partition or you could replace with vfat. This
>is also assuming you want it mounted at /mnt/usb.)
>
you could manually mount from commandline as: mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1
>/mnt/usb
>
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>From: rhn-users-bounces (AT) redhat (DOT) com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces (AT) redhat (DOT) com]
Behalf Paula J. Lindsay
>Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2007 9:08 AM
>To: Red Hat Network Users List
>Subject: [rhn-users] cannot detect usb drive
>
>Hi everyone,
>I cannot detect my usb flash drive. It works fine on my windows, but I
>don't see it when I use it on my linux box. Does it need to be mounted
>in /etc/fstab?
>Many thanks for any advice.
>Paula
>

o The Paula J. Lindsay, IT Analyst III
/ Research Computing, TPC21
>o Scripps phone: 858.784.9378
\ fax: 858.784.9301
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