Slack 10.1 can't mount usb thumb drive

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I hope you didnt trash FC3 for slack for that either, you could have 
easily added the newest kernel for that and it would have probably fixed 
your problem

vlok stone wrote:

>I haven't used a thumb drive, but here's a thread on
>the subject. 
>http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/archive/26/2005/03/4/302098
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>--- Frank Kumro <fkumro at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>I just installed slackware 10.1 (removing FC3) and
>>currently its
>>running the 2.4 kernel (ugh). When I try to mount my
>>usb thumb drive i
>>get the below error. I remember very clear that this
>>did work on FC3
>>and FC used the 2.6 kernel. Is there a different way
>>to mount in 2.4
>>kernel? I also tried sda and sda1-xx. All returned
>>the following
>>error. Yes the disk is formatted for use on both
>>windoze and linux and
>>there are files on it. Any help would be great!
>>
>>bash-3.00$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb/
>>mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
>>
>>-- 
>>Frank
>>Shenanigans!!
>>
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