DSL-N :: Missing mount options

I was running DSL-N for quite a while off the CD boot. Worked so much better than the SuSE 9 I had on theHD, that I went ahead and wiped it out and used the "Install to HD" option from the CD.

The install went just fine, mostly. I'm typing this post from it now.

The only thing that went wrong is that m CDROM and SDA1 no longer appear in the mount app.

What I used to do to mount my USB was to use the mount command and mount /dev/sda1 to /mnt/usbhd. This worked fine when running from CD. Now, when running from the HD install, it's telling me that sda1 is no longer a valid block device.

Any help here would be hot.
Thanks!

Have a look in '/etc/fstab' file somewhere under the '#Added by KNOPPIX' part. It might have detected it somewhere else.

Mine does this sometimes, it will add my usb stick under /dev/sda4, sometimes /dev/sda1. Not sure why, there is only one usb port on the machine.

I thought that the fstab file was only for use by the mount app.
So, I thought I could simply run the mount command the hard way, and get it to mount the USB.

I look in the fstab... The CDROM is there. And I can mount that anywhere I want to regarldess of the fstab entry.

Prior to HD installation, my USB was awlays at sda1. I can't seem to find it anywhere now.

I guess I will have to just try some stuff until I get it to work.

Check `dmesg`?

I had not tried dmesg. Until today, I'd not heard of it. I guess that will tell me something about where that device is on the list now.

Since I was able to mount this from sda1 when booted up from CD, I'm assuming it's just a matter of finding out where the USB is living now. Clearly it's not sda1 anymore.

I paged through the other thread on this similar subject... There were some helpful tricks in there. But it still looks like my problem will be easier to fix than that.

Question, tough: Do I HAVE to have an entry in fstab in order to mount the USB key?

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