I want to copy some information as a .txt file to a usb stick so I could read the files from my XP system.

Qparted shows the usb stick as FAT32. I try to mount the stick using the command:

mkdir /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
mount -t FAT32 /mnt/sdc1

I get an error saying that FAT32 is not a recognized file system. I then issue the command;

cat /proc/filesystems

I see that FAT32 is not listed. How is this possible when gparted recognizes the file system as FAT32.

I tried formatting the stick as vfat, but then my XP system couldn't read the stick. I tried formatting the stick as ntfs, but then I couldn't right to it, since for some reason it was formatted as read only.

1) How do you mount the USB as FAT32?

2) How to you mount the USB as ntfs, but so that it is read/write? If it is read, how do you change it to read/write? :cry:

3) When I issue the command: ifconfig, I see only the loopback adapter: lo. How do I enable my NIC? I assume it is going to be eth0, but it should show in the output of ifconfig/.

1) You can run "fsarchiver probe simple" from sysresccd-1.1.7 to identify all the filesystems

2) You only have to mkdir "/mnt/sdc1" since /dev/sdc1 is the partition and /mnt/xxx is where to mount it

3) The mount commands needs the device and the mount point:
mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1
or
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1

4) in /proc/filesystems you will see vfat which supports both fat16 and fat32

5) Your network card should be shown as eth0, else the driver may not be loaded. Try the alternative kernel. "lspci -nn" can help to identify the devices