Mounting usb drive, and cd drives?????

[jammin]

Hi

Ive jsut installed gentoo. In all my excietment i didnt realease that my flash disk, or either of my two cd drives are not on my gnome desktop.

I used a stage 2 install. used genkernel and have hotplug enabled.

When i boot it says "hotplugging usb devices"

[Kirigoe]

hi,

all the automount and semiautomatic mounts are located in the file /etc/fstab. by adding a line there for each of your devices (but do NOT change the already existing entries for your harddrive(s)) you can either mount filesystems at boot or with the "mount" command followed by the mount point (e.g. /mnt/cdrom).

first off, make a backup of /etc/fstab somewhere outside of your harddrives (floppy preferably) so you can revert to it if there are any errors with fstab. if there are errors in fstab, your computer might not boot.

if you have all the needed kernel modules for USB mass storage, your USB drives should be named /dev/sdXY where X is a letter starting at "a" and Y is a number starting at "1". usually this means your first USB drive is /dev/sda1.

create a mount point in /mnt (e.g. /mnt/usbdrive) and add this line to your fstab file (changing the /dev/sda1 to point to your USB drive):

[TheCoop]

the 'you must specify the filesystem type' message appeared because you didnt specify the filesystem. To mount a device not in your fstab that doesnt use iso9660 (the default), you need to use something like: