On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, John J. Boyer wrote: > My new Dell computer has no floppy drive. It does have a removable > "keyring" USB flash drive. The machine is dual-boot, and both Linux and > Windows recognize this device. Windows assigns it to drive E. Linux does > not say which device name has been assigned to it, and a search through > /dev did not turn up anything that seemed likely. just to check, do you have usb-mass storage loaded and/or present? USB deviceses use scsi-disk-devices for this. If you pluig it in, the demsg output (or output on the console) lists the partiition-table for i.e. /dev/sda > I would like to use this > device to transfer data between Linux and Windows. How do I mount it? What > device type do I use? it's actually a normal disk in the sense of mounting. use the /dev/sd* (scsi-disk) devices and most of these devices have a vfat fs on them (don't do auot cause that sometiems mounts it as a dosfs which kills your long filenmaes). > Thanks, > John > > > -- Andor Demarteau E-mail: andor@xxxxxxxxxxxx student computer science www: http://www.nl.linux.org/~andor UU based & VU guest-student jabber,icq,msn,voip: do ask ;) ----------- chairman Stichting Studiereizen STORM www: http://www.stistusto.nl vice-chairman USF Studentenbelangen executive committee 2002-2003 _______________________________________________ Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list