Does anyone knows how to mount the USB flash drive in Red Hat 9.0? I asked linux technical person, they said it was complicated.

I haven't used redhat for a long time, but have used mandrake up to v9.1 together with a USB camera (which I am guessing may be treated the same as a flash drive). All I needed to do was plug it in and it appeared as the first unused SCSI device on my system, since here at work my box is all IDE, it appeared as /dev/sda1. All I had to do was mount it: # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb KDE even created an icon on my desktop automatically so I could easily mount it in the future.

Mostly all usb flash devices are "usb-mass-storage" devices and work with the usb-storage driver. The musb-storage driver actually emulates a SCSI devices, so you can do the following as 3Dave said: mkdir /mnt/usb - (creates a new directory) mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb - (mounts the drive in the new directory) The flash device will have a fat32 filesystem (works read and write in linux) so you can just copy the files to the new directory to copy files to your flash device.

That reminds me, you may have to pass the filetype: # mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb If it all works according to plan, you can make an entry in fstab so in future all you need to type is: # mount /mnt/usb