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Grant Sewell wrote: > 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. > on my one the SD is mounted automaticaly, well I get a screen asking me if I want to open it in a new file browser. What distro are you using. It does this with the orignal distro and eeeXubuntu. -- Simon Robert www.oldhouse-cottage.co.uk -- 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