On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 22:25, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Joshua Andrews wrote: > > > > Right button click on your desktop and select "create new > hard disc" > > --point the link to /dev/sda1 --choose a mounted/unmounted icon, give it > > a name --done! > > Thanks for info. I am able to make that icon, but ... > > > Also, I would remove 'auto' from the line in fstab. > > > > .. it seems that I can't even mount that flash mobile disk. It is > different to what I had with Mandrake 9.1 earlier. In fact, here it is > what I got when tried to mount that device: > > [root@server misko]# mount -t auto /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > [root@server misko]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device > > (under Mandrake 9.1 it worked with vfat) > > On the other side I tried to make it with /etc/fstab: > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/removable vfat noauto,owner 0 0 > > but that also does not work. What to try next? --- it would seem that /dev/sda1 is a different device. when you plug it in, it should make an entry in /var/log/dmesg... tail /var/log/dmesg should tell you which device it is...it's likely not to be /dev/sda1 Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
