deidre elizabeth
Member
i'm used to pluging in the usb port cable and the drive pops up or it shows by default in the file manager or i can go to /media and double click to mount a device...
i see sdb, sdb1 and sdb2 listed under /dev but don't know how to mount them.... any ideas?
aen
Member
You have to get used to Puppy - it does not automatically mount your device. To do this you can go to the dock at the bottom of the screen and select the "drive mounter" icon. This will bring up a small screen which will have selections for Optical, USB. etc. Clicking on one of these selections will show you which devices are connected and a button to Mount. When you click Mount, if it is a storage device, the file manager opens and your files are shown.
Sometimes you need to select a file from an external device while working in an application. If you don't have the device already mounted, you cannot select the file. If it is mounted, the file can be located in "mnt" (dev)
puppy will mostly detect drives connected....
ofcourse easiest way is to click on mount icon in desktop or from jwm menu Filesystem -> 'Pmount mount/Unmount drives' option.
Another step is to check output of "tail -f /var/log/messages" from console which list new devices connected to machine from which you can manually mount from console
For example If sda4 is the one detected...
Cmd syntax : mount <device> <path to mount>
E.g mount /dev/sda4 /root/newdir
to unmount mounted device:
Cmd: umount <path to mount>
E.g. umount /root/newdir
this is jus a sample reference use case.. hope something here may help you....
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