[Herefordshire] Automatic detection of a USB memory stick, MDK10.1c ?

[Matt Rhys-Roberts]

Hi all,

I have a USB memory stick full of stuff I'd like to copy into my 
Mandrake PC, because I'm too ignorant of how to connect a laptop to this 
PC via a network cable and it'd probably end up taking weeks to 
faultfind. (I'm clueless at IP address configuring which gets me really 
depressed.)

At present, when I plug the stick into my PC, the drive gets excited for 
a few seconds and the stick lights up for a while, but I've no idea 
where to look for the device in the file hierarchy, and it doesn't 
appear as an icon on the desktop (as CDs now do!)

The usual thanks and generous beer rations await whoever can educate me 
here. I want the memory stick to appear as a virtual drive, from which I 
can pull the stored files and put them where I like.

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Best Regards,
Matt Rhys-Roberts
Leominster