Well I'm fairly sort of familiar with linux, but since it is hard to find a real guide for newbie types.

So I got my external usb hard drive. It has tons of stuff from my other computers on it, and I'd like to play some of the mp3s on it. So I bought an adapter that went from male usb to maile mini usb or whatever (so the plugs all fit just fine), and the cord that came with my drive supplies power from a second usb plug that right now is in my laptop (in the future will be in the usb slot in my car stereo). So power, and plugs, all taken care of.

So linux linux,,, i cant figure out what node in /dev to actually mount... I made the directory I want to mount in, and i know that i want to run the equivalent of

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb -o uid=2999

but there is no sda or hda nodes at all. i tried /dev/mmc<something>p1 and it says no such file or directory. when I check dmesg it says something about /dev/mmcblk0 but if i try that i get invalid argument. So I'm stuck. maybe its not in host mode (how do i change it?) Maybe I'm trying the wrong nodes (Which would it be?)

THanks alot for your help in advance!

ok i enabled host mode through the flasher,

does the 770 kernel have NTFS in it? I realize I won't be able to write to it but my big harddrive is NTFS. I can mount it on the linux machine i'm working on right now, with simple "mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb" but if I try the same thing with the 770 I get "cannot mount /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/usb, invalid argument"

?? If I do dmesg after plugging it in and running that command it says something to the like of:
"can't find valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1
cant find ext2
cant find ext3
"

Any ideas? -t ntfs doesn't work and just returns "invalid argument"....

AS I understand it no linux distro "officially" supports NTFS because of MS patents on the filesystem. MS was not allowed to patent FAT32 because they waited too late, or some such, which is why all the thumb drives etc use it. There are hacks to allow RW access to NTFS partitions by Linux systems, and RO access is pretty common, but I doubt Nokia has it compiled into the NXXX kernel.

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NTFS RW is supported through the ntfs-3g FUSE driver. I would hardly call it a hack anymore. Basically the N800 would only need the FUSE core and NTFS read write could come from a recompile of the ntfs-3g.

I believe it's also installed by default in the new Ubuntu Feisty 7.04.

I'm 99% sure that there aren't any NTFS drivers installed. I'm on a 770, but I have fuse installed for its sshfs thing, which works almost awesomely.

Problem is I don't know how to re-compile or whatever to get that g3 thing or whatever in there and working. ANybody got ideas on that one???