[olug] Installing removable drives via USB

Greg Hetrick greg.hetrick at gmail.com
Fri Feb 17 23:04:49 UTC 2006


Only problem I ever ran into was FC4 not loading the usb_storage driver on
boot, added that and it worked fine.

On 2/17/06, Don E. Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
>
> Joe,
>
> I've had really good results mounting and unmounting USB devices under
> Ubuntu. My guess is that Kubuntu would  be about the same. You should be
> able to just insert the flash drive into your computer and Kubuntu
> should pick it up and mount it. At least Ubuntu does for me. To unmount
> it, just right click on the drive icon and a context menu should pop up.
> Unmount should be at the bottom of that menu.
>
> I'm switching my main desktop machine to Ubuntu tomorrow. I just LOVE it
> on my laptop!!
>
> Don Kauffman
>
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:22 -0800, Joe Gulizia wrote:
> > When in windoze I've plugged USB devices and they've
> > read just fine.  When I get Kubuntu set up again would
> > I do the same  OR any gui-based linux distro for that matter?
> >
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