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Re: How to Mount USB Stick



On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 19:30:18 -0700, ray wrote:

> I am learning on Wheezy Beta1, command line only. I am trying to access
> the USB stick which was the installation media. The box has 2 SSDs.
> 
> When I look for devices with and without the stick plugged in, the
> difference is sdc and sdc1 labeled as floppy. When I try to mount either
> 'floppy' or 'sdc' or 'sdc1', I get a message saying the device is not
> defined.
> How do I mount the stick? What should the command line look like?

First you need to know where the USB stick has been detected:

dmesg | grep -i usb

Then you can issue the mount command (as root):

mount /dev/sdxn /mnt

And hope for the best :-)

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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