[afnog] UBUNTU 10.!10 headaches!

[Yasini Kilima]

O.K I will make it when I go back home as the machine is at home

-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Habicht [mailto:geier at geier.ne.tz]
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:20 AM
To: Yasini Kilima
Cc: afnog
Subject: Re: [afnog] UBUNTU 10.!10 headaches!

On 4/10/2012 9:11 AM, Yasini Kilima wrote:
> Hello Patrick,
>
> 1. The USB stick is 2.0 and it doesn't matter what you insert provided
> it is a USB stick I tried several but surprisingly a USB mass storage
> works fine, USB Camera works fine, USB Card reader works fine
>
> 2. The format on the USB is FAT16 as usual
>
> 3. Version of Ubuntu, actually I don't know what you mean but I used
> Ubuntu 10.10 if this is correct for the question
>
> 4. I installed on an hp dc5000 desktop with 512MB RAM 2.8GHZ processor
> and stand alone
>
> 5. I will try this command "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt"  I expected it should mount automatically. The strange thing is the USB drive will show up in /dev but doesn't mount and so you cannot see its contents.

Hi Yasini,

if the mount does not work, please send the output of fdisk -l /dev/sdb

maybe also 'dmesg' can show something after inserting the USB.


Frank


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