Cannot mount flash drive

From: Sonoman (nospam_at_microsoft.com)
Date: 04/22/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 21:33:56 -0400

Hi all:
Iam trying to mount a usb thumb drive in my fedora core 1 (kernel version
2.6.5). I use the command "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb" and I the the
following error:

[root@localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device

my fstab looks as follows:

[root@localhost mnt]# cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,auto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,auto 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,auto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/thumb vfat noauto,user 0 0

I have tried several commands and edited the fstab file several times but I
always get the same error message as shown above. Please advise.

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