Am I able to mount the usb thumb flash drives in redhat linux?

[owenbrown]

Am I able to mount the usb thumb flash drives in redhat linux?

 

[skiflyer]

Yes.

But then again, the distro doesn't matter so much here as does your kernel version.

If it's not done for you, you'll need to recompile with USB & possibly USB mass storage support (the details are in the HELP section of the Kernel Configuration tool)

Don't know what version started supporting USB, I think it was an early 2.4

-Rob

 

[owenbrown]

So any usb flash drive will work if i have the latest kernel?

 

[skiflyer]

I can't say I have much experience here, I fried all my USB ports... but you have to configure the kernel for support for your USB drive and compile it, out of the box, it will depend on how your distro setup the kernel for you.

-Rob

 

[perrymans]

Don't USB devices have to be mounted as SCSI? So when you mount the device, you would use

mount /dev/sda

Sean.

 

[pansophic]

On my Redhat 9.0 box, I had to do the following:

/sbin/usbmodules --device /proc/bus/usb/00x/00y
/sbin/mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

You need to replace x with the USB port number and y with the device number that is created under /proc/bus/usb/001/ or /proc/bus/usb/002/.

It has worked for my camera, using the USB cable, and my compact flash cards using a compact flash reader.


pansophic