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    USB flashdrive won't mount

    The normal CD failed to boot, so I tried to install the Kubuntu 6.06 Desktop Edition daily-image on a test machine. No problem with installing it to the hard drive.

    After rebooting into the newly install Kubuntu, I connected the USB flashdrive, identified as sda1, and it said "only root' can mount it.

    I did not have this problem with older version of 6.06, which I install on one machine with up-to-date packages as of today May 31, 2006.

    In the first 15min of test drive the newly install, I have the following problem with the LiveCD install:

    1. USB devices would not mount as normal user.
    2. When mounted, the USB devices (default format: FAT), appear to be read-only. I changed the options settings in /etc/fstab to noauto,user,umask=000, umount, then mounted. Still could not write to it.

    Does anyone have any idea what's wrong?

    Thanks.

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    Re: USB flashdrive won't mount

    Just a guess, add rw to the options in the fstab entry. It's not exactly the same thing as umask=000, even though you''d think that it was.

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