Hi, Ashlesha and Aneto If anything fails you should edit your /etc/fstab file to include the mount point, device and filesystem for the device to mount. <div>On 4/24/07, Noah Kantrowitz <<a href="mailto:kantrn@rpi.edu">kantrn@rpi.edu</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> First become root: $ su Then make a place to mount it: # mkdir /mnt/usb Then mount the drive: # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb Don't forget to unmount it before removal: # umount /mnt/usb --Noah Ashlesha Shintre wrote: > Hi, > > I want to run a program, whose executable file is in a USB stick -- > > how do I mount it to the laptop in the terminal? I dont know the make > of the stick -- > > On my personal machine, it is automatically mounted by Ubuntu -- > > Thank you! > Ashlesha. > _______________________________________________ > Sugar mailing list > <a href="mailto:Sugar@laptop.org">Sugar@laptop.org</a> > <a href="http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar">http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar</a> > _______________________________________________ Sugar mailing list <a href="mailto:Sugar@laptop.org">Sugar@laptop.org</a> <a href="http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar">http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/sugar</a> </blockquote></div> -- Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero OLPC Colombia <a href="http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia">http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Colombia</a> Grupo de robotica libre DROZ <a href="http://www.el-directorio.org/DrozConfluence"> http://www.el-directorio.org/DrozConfluence</a> <a href="http://el-directorio.org">http://el-directorio.org</a> El sitio de software Libre en Colombia