Quick Debian Question.

[toxic chicken]

i need to access my usb flash drive from debian.

it's a u3 cruzer micro 2gb, and the filesystem is fat.

it recognizes it when i plug it in, but i'm not sure how to get to the files.

 

[mqudsi]

start a shell

su
mount -a

 

[toxic chicken]

i don't think it did anything.

picture

 

[mqudsi]

oh - I didn't know you were running a bare-bones system:

mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/myUSB

That should work for you - you can then access it by

cd /mnt/myUSB

If that doesn't work then it's not sda1, meaning you have a SCSI or SATA drive attached to the PC. In that case try sdb1.

 

[toxic chicken]

that worked, but now it's saying make isn't a command.

 

[mqudsi]

That means you don't have the required dev tools installed.
Linux sucks because of dependencies. You need to get GCC, and a bunch of other programs installed in order to use the make command.

 

[toxic chicken]

okay, well is there a way to get a wpci11 wireless card working on nt 4.0?

 

[mqudsi]

ndiswrapper

it uses Windows XP drivers to run Wi-Fi cards on Linux

 

[mqudsi]

Oh, and congratulations on your hundredth post!

 

[toxic chicken]

thanks, and i was trying to install ndiswrapper when i found out make didn't work. because i needed to install all that, i was considering going back to windows nt if it would work in that somehow.

 

[mqudsi]

Oh, I didn't notice that NT bit right there.

No, NT doesn't have wireless support.

 

[toxic chicken]

and congratulations (?) on 666.

 

[mqudsi]

aaaaah!

*phew*
That's gone now

(No, I'm not superstitious )

 

[toxic chicken]

i downloaded gcc here:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/gcc

#/myUSB/linux/gcc/gcc.deb
 line 1:syntax error near unexpected token 'newline'
 line 1: '!<arch>'

 

[mqudsi]

How did you attempt to run the .deb?
Do you have the package manager installed?

 

[toxic chicken]

umm...there's dpkg and aptitude.

 

[mqudsi]

Why don't you just run

apt-get install gcc

 

[toxic chicken]

E: Couldn't find package gcc

 

[mqudsi]

That's because your repositories haven't been set up.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#How_to_add_extra_repositories

 

[toxic chicken]

...i'm lost.