Re: OT: USB mass storage on KNOPPIX 3.8.1

[ABrady <nala@kc.rr.com>]

Nate Bargmann wrote:

> Hi everyone.
>
> Congrats on Sarge!  :-)
>
> Unfortunately, I suffered a recent HD crash on my laptop where I had
> Testing setup in one partition and used it to mount my USB mass storage
> based Fuji FinePix A330 camera.  Today I was able to borrow a small (5
> GB) hard drive and had access to a KNOPPIX 3.8.1 CD and did the HD
> install.  I've never tried to do USB mass storage on KNOPPIX or the 2.6
> series kernel before and I can't seem to get past "go".
>
> The kernel is 2.6.11 and lsusb shows the camera on the bus.  Several
> related modules are loaded by Hotplug including usb_storage, ub, and
> sg.  However, trying the mount command with /dev/sda|sda1|sr0 and
> variations all fail with "not a valid block device".
>
> I know this stuff isn't that hard (isn't it about time some of this
> stuff were more or less automatic in KDE?), but I'm having a heck of a
> mental block right now and feel really lost.  I know there is a lot of
> expertise here, so this is why I'm asking.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Nate >>
>
>  
I believe Knoppix changed primary filesystems a release or two back. Now 
I think what you want is under /dev/ub[a-z] instead of /dev/sd[a-z].

I'm willing to be corrected since I didn't spend a lot of time with it 
last time I checked it.