[olug] Documentation for Cruzer Mini's

[Don Kauffman]

For those who are interested here's how I have it set up.

First of all, I had to modprobe usb_storage
Then I created a mount point (not knowing that the system would do that
for me. I prefer to use mine as the name is shorter -- usbvfat,) 
Put a line in fstab (noauto, user). I figure this gets around the
problem that Jake mentions. I want to mount and umount it myself thank
you very much! :-)

This will make my life much simpler!

B-)
Don K.

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 19:40, Jake Churchill wrote:
> What Nathan said is correct.  It will automatically recognize the flash  
> drive.  The problem comes in that when you pull it out, it stays  
> mounted and doesn't remount when you put it back in.  The solution is  
> mount /dev/sda1 as he said.
> 
> 
> On Nov 21, 2004, at 10:15 AM, Don Kauffman wrote:
> 
> > 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
> >
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