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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,17:25 QUOTE
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Alright! I figured out how to *DOUBLE*-click (hey, what's wrong with the prior *SINGLE*-click?) the Apps/ icon on the desktop to get new pages of icons which I can then drag onto the desktop to run conveniently. Not as up-front for my LiveCD approach, but workable.
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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,17:45 QUOTE
Right click on any desktop icon to see mount options.
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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,18:06 QUOTE
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Right click on any desktop icon to see mount options.

I put my USB flash drive into a USB port and its flashes, indicating DSL2.4.2 is looking at it to figure out what it is, but hasn't mounted it, right? So them I right-click on any desktop icon, select the Mount item, and get three choices: \mnt\auto\floppy \mnt\auto\cdrom \mnt\sda. I select \mnt\sda but it doesn't mount my 128MB Memorez flash drive although the blue light flashes.

Aha! dmesg shows: FAT: bogus logical sector size 7950 / VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00. At least I now know the DSL method for mounting.

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Posted: Jan. 26 2008,19:11 QUOTE
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Aha! dmesg shows: FAT: bogus logical sector size 7950 / VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev 08:00. At least I now know the DSL method for mounting.

You should be able to mount it after you fix it. If you have Windows, you can use fdisk to repair it and (hopefully) save your data.

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Posted: Jan. 28 2008,01:46 QUOTE
Well, there really wasn't anything wrong with it. I pulled it out and retried and it mounted OK.

Sorry to say this, but at the moment I'm trying very hard to get MEPIS running on my HP DV9005 *because* it effortlessly talks to my Broadcom 4311 WiFi *and* lets my 1440x900 LCD operate in its native resolution. One of MEPIS's drawbacks is there is no myDSL mechanism to permanently extend the OS with a few packages I need for compiling C programs, but I have made it fairly painless by downloading the Debian package files onto my Windows partition and installing them in about 15 seconds with a single dpkg -i... command.
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