Re: mounting error USB stick

[Paul Cartwright <ale@pcartwright.com>]

On Fri February 22 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > no clue? I stick the USB in the slot, and up comes a dialog box asking if
> > I want to OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW, and I say OK.
> > it does show it in the window as 262M Removeable Media.
>
> So you actually can *use* the thumb drive?

right, if I manually go to the command line and type the mount command:
mount /dev/sdf /media/sdf1

it works.
but when I first insert the stick, the window comes up to open in a new 
window, I say OK and it fails.

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