HD Install :: USB Hard drive access



I have a hard drive installation through Microsoft's virtual Machine and it is working fine. My question is how can I use a usb hard drive. during the bootup process I see that the floppy and CDRom have been mounted and I have added /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive ext2 default 0 0 to the fstab. It just doesn't see it... I've tried it in fedora core 2 and I can access it just fine. I'm not sure if thsi is a DSL probem or a MSVM problem, any thoughts...?

thanks.
Quote (oxatunt @ Oct. 21 2004,11:29)
I have a hard drive installation through Microsoft's virtual Machine and it is working fine. My question is how can I use a usb hard drive. during the bootup process I see that the floppy and CDRom have been mounted and I have added /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive ext2 default 0 0 to the fstab. It just doesn't see it... I've tried it in fedora core 2 and I can access it just fine. I'm not sure if thsi is a DSL probem or a MSVM problem, any thoughts...?

thanks.

You might try
http://www.linux-usb.org/
FAQS here
http://www.linux-usb.org/FAQ.html

That would be a very good place to start..you have to have the USB modules loaded
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alias usb uhci

none                    /proc/bus/usb           usbdevfs noauto         0 0

Brian
AwPhuch
I'll try that...
thanks for the quick response!

original here.