ED,

debian:/# mount -t msdos /dev/sda /usbdir
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
/dev/sda,
       or too many mounted file systems

Marshall
--- Ed Skinner <ed@flat5.net> wrote:

> Try using /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 -- some of
> my systems require the 
> latter, but some of them require the former. Go
> figure...
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 29 September 2004 09:53, Marshall Paul
> wrote:
> > Rob,
> >
> > Thanks this is a good start. But I need a little
> more
> > help.
> >
> > lsusb yielded:
> > debian:/# lsusb
> > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0d7e:2315 American Computer
> &
> > Digital Components
> > Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0d7e:2317 American Computer
> &
> > Digital Components
> > Bus 003 Device 004: ID 0d7e:2316 American Computer
> &
> > Digital Components
> > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
> >
> > I don't know how you get from this information
> that
> > the device should be sda1?  Second, what file type
> > needs to be entered in the mount command?
> >
> > I used: mount /dev/sda1 /usbdir and received the
> error
> > "you must specify the file system type?
> >
> > I then entered: "mount /dev/sda1 /usbdir -t msdos"
> and
> > received the error /dev/sda1 not a valid block
> device.
> >
> > Marshall
> >
> > Marshall
> >
> > --- Rob Wultsch <wultsch@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > First, how do I determine what devices I have?
> > >
> > > # lsusb
> > >
> > > > Second, how do I determine what device is the
> USB
> > >
> > > device.  I am trying to read a memory stick.
> > > it would almost always be  /dev/sda (or /dev/sdb
> or
> > > /dev/sdv...)
> > >
> > > > Third what mount command would you use to
> mount
> > >
> > > the
> > >
> > > > USB memory stick once I know what device it
> is?
> > >
> > > # mkdir /crap
> > > # mount /dev/sda1 /crap
> > > // it is just like a hard drive in that it has
> > > partitions
> > >
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