Re: Flash drives?

From: Jonathan Edwards (jonatha_at_qx.net)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:19:50 -0500

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 15:58:50 -0800, Poly-poly Man wrote:

> The drive comes out as /mnt/flash, and as /dev/sd0. when I try to open
> it though, it gives me an error about "incorrect superblocks". About
> the crazy junk, I was referring to Knoppix, which mounts the flash
> drive and my usb floppy as several /dev/sda's or sdb's. None of them,
> under knoppix, work.
>
> THanks,
> poly-p man

If you have not already done so, you might try making sure Linux knows the
flash drive has a fat or vfat filesystem. Do "man mount" for details on
the exact form of mount command to issue...

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