[Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3

[Alan Rutherford]

Robert Barbour wrote:

>I did this and sent a reply to scottish, but it didn't get into the system.
>Could this be because it had a file attached?
>Anyway, I think study of the log might confirm the suspicion that the format of the stick is the problem.
>So how do I get round the format problem for file transfers - I have Linux, Apple and (reluctantly) MS?
>Regards
>Rob
>
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>Message Received: Jan 09 2006, 03:16 PM
>From: "Martin Habets" 
>To: scottish at mailman.lug.org.uk
>Cc: 
>Subject: Re: [Scottish] USB memory sticks and SuSE 9.3
>
>It seems time to open up a terminal window (that's Konsole in Suse).
>After you insert the stick, open the new 'floppy' icon, and get the
>error message... after all that, type in these commands in the terminal
>window and send the output here:
>
>mount
>dmesg | tail -100
>
>That should give us a start to figure out what's going on.
>If you're couragous you could look up a line for 'sda' in the mount
>output and try to browse that directory.
>
>My guess is the floppy icon is used because the filesystem on the USB
>stick is msdos.
>
>Martin
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I had the exact same problem with Suse. As soon as I re-formated the USB 
memory stick, in FAT using Windoze, it worked!

Alan