[olug] Documentation for Cruzer Mini's

[Don Kauffman]

Got it up and running. Thanks to all who responded! 

The documentation provided was a big help, Specifically --
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html
-- gave me enough confidence to get it up and running. 



Don K.

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 03:38, Christopher Cashell wrote:
> At Sat, 20 Nov 04, Unidentified Flying Banana Don Kauffman, said:
> > I'm looking for some good documentation or help for setting up, mounting
> > and using SanDisk Cruzer Mini's under Linux (more specifically under
> > suse 9.1).
> 
> I haven't specifically used the Cruzer USB flash drives, and SuSE isn't
> my distribution of choice, but if you have a recent Linux kernel (2.6.x,
> or most 2.4.x) then you probably have all you need already (The Linux
> kernel contains 'native' support for USB flash drives).
> 
> Just make sure that you have your kernel compiled for USB (I'd be
> surprised if SuSE doesn't support it out of the box).  There's three
> modules you need, the low-level USB host driver, usbcore, and
> usb-storage.
> 
> To see if you're setup, start with 'cat /proc/modules | grep "usb"' and
> look for 'usb-storage'.  If you don't see it, Try typing 'sudo modprobe
> usb-storage'.  Chances are that'll do the trick.
> 
> Now all you have to do is use mount to mount the USB drive.
> 
> > Does anyone know of any good howto's? There is some help available on
> > help forums but no one specific document that I can find. I searched the
> > linux ldp, Linux Orbit, linux gazzette, linus forum, linux journal.
> 
> Do a search for 'linux usb flash drive' and you'll find quite a bit.
> Here's a few specific entries that looked decent:
> 
> http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Flash-Memory-HOWTO.html
> http://www.extremetech.com/print_article2/0,2533,a=59292,00.asp
> 
> 
> > Don Kauffman