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On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:56:35 +0000 John Hansen wrote: > I have fitted a 4Gb SD card to supplement the 2Gb main memory in my > new eeePC. However I have not found how to save a file to either the > SD card or to an USD memory stick. > Do any of you perhaps know of a detailed instruction for these > actions? > > John Hi John, Typically under Linux USB "pendrives" (and, more than likely, the SD cards present here) will appear as SCSI drives, so would be /dev/sdXY (where X is a letter and Y is a number - usually 1). The first thing to check is if Linux has picked up the card/stick. Inset said card/stick and wait a couple of seconds, then type the following into the command line (if you can get to one): dmesg You should see lots of information, and at the bottom there should be something about USB/SCSI mass storage and details of the /dev/sdXY from above. If you do, then progress to see if Linux has automatically "mounted" your card/stick. Again, the easiest way is from the command line. Type: cat /proc/mounts and see what is mentioned about /dev/sdXY (from earlier). Hopefully you'll have something like: /dev/sdc1 /mnt/media vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,blah,blah,blah The "/mnt/media" bit is where you would access the card/stick. Hope this helps. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html