Newbie USB thumb drive problem in FC5-PPC test 3.

[Brian Durant]

Paul Nasrat wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 20:15 +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> 
>>I am trying to mount my USB thumb drive. Here is my fstab:
> 
> 
>>I have created "/mnt/usbdrive" and "/dev/sdc" is listed in system ->
>>administration -> hardware. The drive is listed as "fat16" I have also
>>tried in the terminal:
>>
>>$ sudo mount fat /dev/sdc
>>mount: you must specify the filesystem type
> 
> 
> mount -t vfat /dev/sdc /mnt/usbdrive
> 
> Note if it's a partition rather than a full drive image you'd
> need /dev/sdc1 for partition 1.  cat /proc/partitions or parted /dev/sdc
> print to check (fdisk won't understand Mac disk labels)
> 
> 
>>I have tried to mount my HFS+ partition on my second SATA drive with the
>>same result, when I used "hfsplus" as fs type. Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> 
> mount -t hfsplus /dev/... /mnt/somewhere
> 
> If things aren't working it's likely to be hal/udev/gnome-user-mount
> fun.
> 
> Paul

I'm getting errors from hal at boot, but don't know what logs to dig 
into or where they reside.

Cheers,

Brian