Linux:How to Mount a USB flash or pen drive
Truth:The mount command can be issued only as the root user.
Solution:Give permission to normal user to mount a USB pen or flash drive.
#1: Create a directory
Code:#
mkdir /mnt/usbpen
#2: Find out USB pen drive name
Code:#
fdisk -l
#3: Open /etc/fstab fileAppend following line:
Code:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbpen auto noauto,user,rw,exec 0 0
#4: Save the file and login as the normal user:
Code:$
mount /mnt/usbflash
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released
The Debian Project is pleased to announce the official release of Debian GNU/Linux version 5.0 (codenamed Lenny) after 22 months of constant development. Debian GNU/Linux is a free operating system which supports a total of twelve processor architectures and includes the KDE, GNOME, Xfce, and LXDE desktop environments. It also features compatibility with the FHS v2.3 and software developed for version 3.2 of the LSB.
Debian GNU/Linux runs on computers ranging from palmtops and handheld systems to supercomputers, and on nearly everything in between. A total of twelve architectures are supported: Sun SPARC (sparc), HP Alpha (alpha), Motorola/IBM PowerPC (powerpc), Intel IA-32 (i386), IA-64 (ia64), HP PA-RISC (hppa), MIPS (mips, mipsel), ARM (arm, armel), IBM S/390 (s390), and AMD64 and Intel EM64T (amd64).
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