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

[Julian Robbins]

Matt Rhys-Roberts wrote:

> 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.
>
It should do it automatically in MDR 10.1 and appear as a drive on the 
desktop.

type dmesg and post the bit of the results that pertains to /dev/sda1

Julian