I am a newbie. I have learned to set the date and time. I can mount
and umount the floppy drive. I am working my way through a linux manual
trying to learn it. I am only in terminal-text mode. Graphics are way
too slow.

How do I open a file on the usb memory stick with the editor, if i can,
or get data on or off the usb memory stick.

I plugged in a usb memory stick into a thinkpad 285 laptop running
Deiban (stable) linux. My screen produced these comments:

user1@localhost:$ (the prompt)

USBB 1-1.1 new full speed usb device
using uhci_hcd and address 11
usb 1-1.1 configuration #1 chosen from choice scsi3: SCSI emulation for
USB mass storage devices
Vendor USB2.0 model Mobile Disk
Rev: 1.00
Type direct-access ANSI SCSI revision : 02
sda Write Protect Off
sda assuming driver cach3: write through
SCSI device sda: 4030463 512 bytes hdwr Sectors (2064MB)
sda : Write Protect off
sda : sda1
sd 3:0:0:0: attached SCSI
removble disk sda

I have a subdirectory srv but somebody said this device should be sr0.

help/comments appreciated.

Em Quinta, 12 de Julho de 2007 11:01, enquiring mind escreveu:

>
> I have a subdirectory srv but somebody said this device should be sr0.
>
> help/comments appreciated.

No, usualy it is /dev/sda1

with you pen connected do as root

# fdisk -l
to see if you pen has a partition, the usualy do

then create a mount point for it (a folder) it can be /mnt/usbvolume

then edit your /etc/fstab
to add a line like this:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbvolume vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
(save file and exit)

now you can mount/unmount you pen whit a device icon on desktop or with
kwikdisk, or in case you use gnome, there are ways to mount/unmount volumes
by clicking also.

regards