I think I'm nearly there - but not being there could mean I have miles to go. Thanks to all the advise this thread has made available, I've learnt heaps. Sad fact is I am unable to read my flash sticks / camera card yet. So I went looking and discovered /udev. Some good HOWTOs out there and I got it all up to actually seeing the devices. eg. [ I called this one 64MB and have made all the entries the HOWTOs have suggested as can be seen here.] [root(a)Snapafun mnt]# fdisk /udev/64MB Command (m for help): p Disk /udev/64MB: 65 MB, 65536000 bytes 16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 250 cylinders Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /udev/64MB1 * 1 249 63728 6 FAT16 Command (m for help): q [root(a)Snapafun mnt]# mount /udev/64MB -t vfat 64MB mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /udev/64MB, or too many mounted file systems Of the three devices I have one shows " FAT12 " - another shows " FAT16 " and the last shows " FAT16<32M " Any suggestions anyone? I have the latest rpms installed for all the stuff needed according to the HOWTO. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/linux-2.6.html And all the files/folders to check for are present. I'm not sure if the devices once plugged in are suppose to show up in /mnt but they don't at present. One more thing, once I have made changes to /etc/fstab do I need to do anything extra to invoke the changes? [ Like we need to do with lilo eg. ] Things seem OK: [root(a)Snapafun mnt]# ls /udev 64MB 64MB0 64MB1 But I thought I had better be sure. Merry xmas all. -- Regards SnapafunFrank Big or small, a challenge requires the same commitment to resolve. Registered Linux User # 324213