Hi all, i hv been using DSL 0.7 up till last week, then, i downloaded 1.0RC1. Everything runs smoothly on any pc, but i seem to hv a problem mounting my pendrive, it's happened on 3 p.c's so far.
I hv checked dmesg, the pendrive is detected as normal. but when i tried to do mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/myfolder, it says /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device.
I have received some pointers from ke4nt, but it's not working either. I have tried mounting in fc1, mdk10.0, all worked well. Did something go wrong with my DSL cd ? It's not possible, izzit?
Anyone???as root run "fdisk -l". This will show you all availible disks and partitions. Does your sda1 show up? Or has it changed to something else?
combine the fdisk info with "df -h" and you can see what drives/partitions the system know about and IF they are mounted. Note, swap is labled but not "mounted".
As a general note, you may want to check this thumb drive out carefully. I have seen them go bad rather quickly at times. (not that it has happened to you now)Did you try clearing out all partitions, and rebuilding the partition table?
73 ke4nt
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Did you try clearing out all partitions, and rebuilding the partition table?
ehhh.... no, i haven't.
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Does your sda1 show up? Or has it changed to something else?
The last thing i remembered, i saw something like usb on proc...... can't remember, but will get back to this. Sorry for the late reply, i got stuck with my some other work. Have temporarily reverted back to 0.7.......... is there a better way to fix this? But, my thanks to both of you for the quick reply. Hope to i can figure this out today......if my brains dont go numb.Depending on what model is your pendrive, you may need to mount the entire /dev/sda/ ("mount /dev/sda/ /mnt/mypendrive" for instance) to mount the device properly. This seems to be partition issues. Try this before formatting you pendrive. It may work well. I had this problem on a fstab configuration of a workstation on my work.
