Hi ol, just instal RedHat Linux 9 for my final year project and workin petty gud but when I insert my pendriv, it doen't detect it..do I 'v to install mor or...ani help plz

Thx
imtek

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Hi all, just install RedHat Linux 9 for my final year project and working petty good but when I insert my pendrive, it doesn't detect it..do I have to install more softwares or...any help please

Thanks

imtek

Are hal and dbus working? Are you a member of storage? That should be enough to get it working. If you can't work that out, I think you need to invest some time really learning about Linux from either a book or the thousands of online tutorials, has it really taken you 10 weeks to get this far?

Don't know redhat, but it must use a file similar to etc/fstab so you can automate the process.

The stick should arrive somewhere like /dev/sda1 so will need mounting like this

mount -t vfat /dev/sda? /media/flash (or whatever you want to call it.. and symlink /media/flash to your desktop.. then it will pop up if the drive is in...

Why don't you try specific redhat help sites. It is a commercial linux OS and I don't think we support it.

yea, it will either be /dev/sda1 or sometimes it gets named /dev/sdb1

So mount those to whatever location you want...

Actually that's outmoded.. plugin devices like flash drives and other usb devices should now be managed by hotplug. It will be available as a .rpm package.

you gotta use the command mount.
There are tutorials on google.

What the hell do you think that adds to the information already given???

errrrr... like NOTHING!

I think the problem may be that your kernel may not have the usb_storage module loaded. Redhat 9 is about 5 years old! If memory serves me. Since then, Redhat 9 (community) was killed and Fedora tooks its place, and we are at Fedora 9 today.

When you put your pen usb stick, type "dmesg" if the kernal is not seeing a new device, your missing the usb_storage module.

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