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Thread ID: 47237	2004-07-20 08:23:00	USB Pen Drive on Linux	Ashley Matthews (550)	Press F1

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253764	2004-07-21 10:22:00	Ashley - you are using Xandros aren't you? I just tried my Legend USB Pendrive in my laptop under Xandros Business Edition, and it mounted as soon as I plugged it in. It showed up as "Removable Drive" (in fact, two Removable Drives, one for each partition) in File Manager. I could browse both drives no problem. My installation is bog standard apart from the usual desktop tweaks to pretty it up a bit, and installation of k3b and Firefox. Not sure why yours isn't showing up - I am sure that Business Ed would not add any functionality for mounting pendrives... John	John H (8)
253765	2004-07-21 10:40:00	Im with John on this - It should "Just work"! In Xandros for me it appeared just down beneath the CD-RW Drive in the Xandros-Filemanager. Ive not tried it since I partitioned mine and made half of it AES Encrypted, but it should at least _still_ pick up the FAT16 part. If not, then you'll just needa be root (As this has been said) to: mkdir /mnt/pendrive mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/pendrive Just dont forget to run: umount /mnt/pendrive before you pull it out :-) When you've got it picked up, then worry about editing your fstab :-) Chill.	Chilling_Silence (9)
253766	2004-07-21 10:52:00	I should have said that I have done nothing to my pendrive except copy data to it in XP. The two partitions were there from scratch, and it hasn't been anywhere near Linux until tonight when I thought I would just try it out. As Chill said, it "just worked" and it showed up at the bottom of the list of devices in File Manager. >Just dont forget to run: >umount /mnt/pendrive before you pull it out Ooops! I just pulled the thing out, and watched until the two Removable Drive(s) disappeared from File Manager. I will fire up the Xandros lappie tomorrow and check out whether I have done anything nasty. :-(	John H (8)
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