mounting a drive

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mounting a drive

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how do you mnt a usb drive in bt4? bt4 is based on ubuntu if that helps...i pop my card in and it doesnt detect or anything.
what dir should it be under?
i need to know so i can install ndiswrapper and then install my wireless card....finally. :oops:
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first you create a directory you want to mount the drive to, let's say /mnt/usb:

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mkdir /mnt/usb
an USB device usually has the "sd" prefix, like sda or sdb, but if you don't know exactly the name simply list the drives (actually it displays the space usage) with:

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df -h
the -h switch is to display the size in a better readable ("human readable") format, like 10M or 10G....here's an example output:

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/dev/sdb1             282G   46G  222G  17% 
tmpfs                 951M     0  951M   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                   10M   36K   10M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 951M     0  951M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              93M  8.8M   79M  11% /boot
now simply look for the device that has the size of the USB stick and mount it into the folder you have created earlier (I use sdb1 in this example):

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mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
then you can access it in the /mnt/usb directory... :wink:
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neither of my usb devices showed up and my cd drive didnt either :?
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hm, is it showing up in:

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fdisk -l
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