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Re: [ts-7000] USB memory stick

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Subject: Re: [ts-7000] USB memory stick
From: Joe Bouchard <>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:50:37 -0400
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 07:37:10PM -0000, Arturo Borquez wrote:
> Hi all,
> I want to use a USB memory stick such as the kingston memory traveller
> or something similar. I have a ts-7200 booting from internal flash and
> I guess that I don't have the kernel modules required.
> 
> so my questions are
> - what driver or kernels modules I need and where to download 
> - what changes I need to load the modules at startup
> - how to mount the device

On my TS-7200 I was able to do it without much hassle. You may need to "insmod
usb-storage" to load that module.  Frequently these devices will be show up as
/dev/sda1, but not always.  Plug in the usb device and type "dmesg" and at the
end you should see a message something like "found usb device...blah... sda".
If so then "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt" and then you can see the filesystem on
mount point /mnt.  When you get done, be sure to umount it before you pull it
out.

The tradititional (perhaps obsolete) way to specify modules to load at boot time
was to put a line in /etc/modules.  If you put it there and it works, good for
you.  If not, "the debian way" is to use a system called "update-modules" which
manages it, but I doubt they do that on the mini filesystem on the flash.

To make it permanent, "mkdir /thumbdrive" (or whatever you want to call it) and
add it to /etc/fstab about like so:
/dev/sda1   /thumbdrive        vfat        defaults     0       0

Hope that helps.
Joe


 
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