[SWLUG] USB memory with Debian/Stable

[Dafydd Harries]

Ar 02/02/2005 am 18:55, ysgrifennodd Mark Summerfield:
> Hi,
> 
> I've just bought a usb memory stick. I have two distros on my system,
> Debian/Stable and Fedora Core 2. The memory stick works fine with FC2, I
> just had to add this line to /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda1  /usb auto    rw,user,noauto 0 0
> 
> and I can now do "mount /usb" and "umount /usb" with no problems.
> 
> However, I use Debian 99% of the time and so I want to use the usb
> memory from Debian. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this. I added
> the same line to Debian's /etc/fstab and when I tried mounting /usb I
> got the message:
> 
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/sda1 as a block device
>        (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> 
> so then I tried insmod (as superuser) but both usb-ohci and usb-storage
> complained about unresolved symbols.

Try using "modprobe" rather than "insmod", as this will load
dependencies as well.

-- 
Dafydd