[Novalug] Writing to a thumb drive

cmhowe@patriot.net cmhowe@patriot.net
Sun May 30 23:58:18 EDT 2010


> Unfortunately I can't assist right now, but
>
> 1) Plug in thumb drive
>
> 2) across top of the screen is PLACES
> 2a) Select Places (drop down)
> 2b) Select 'Home folder'
>
> 3) Drag each folder to THUMB DRIVE icon that appeared on desktop.
>
> 4) When you are done, right click on THUMB DRIVE icon
> 4a) Select "Remove Safely" or "Unmount"
>
>
> On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 4:41 PM, <cmhowe@patriot.net> wrote:
>
>> List,
>>
>> This is a Charlie the Perpetual Newbie type question.
>>
>> As I wrote a few days ago, installing Lucid on the computer I call
>> "black"
>> seemed to be great at the installfest on Friday night, May 19, but
>> mostly
>> has turned bad. The most annoying -- crippling, really -- thing is that
>> connectivity is VERY slow. I go to my home page, which is Slashdot. It
>> says it's loading, but nothing shows up, so I go to another site. Same
>> deal. And a third. Same. Then I go back to the home page. Maybe Slashdot
>> shows up. If it does, I read it. If not, I go watch TV or start reading.
>> It can take a half hour ... One other thing is that when I am in a
>> terminal and want to print something out, it says that the scheduler is
>> messed up. I haven't tried printing an oo document.
>>
>> It should be noted that I went to the installfest wanting a tuneup, not
>> to
>> get Lucid installed. I did that the day before, using DSL, which took a
>> LONG time. More to the point, there was ominous stuff written to the
>> screen, stuff that I didn't have the foggiest about -- so...
>>
>> What to do about it? Unless somebody will rescue me, I plan on wiping
>> out
>> what I have and reinstalling. (I now have a DVD with Lucid on it.) But
>> before I do that, I want to write stuff I have created over the last few
>> months to a thumb drive. I bought one from Microcenter that has a
>> capacity
>> that is a bit less than two gigabytes. I stick in in and see a nice
>> screen, one that I can navigate. But what I don't see is how to actually
>> write to it. I get to a subdirectory in the home partition. But nowhere
>> do
>> I see how to actually write that subdirectory to the thumb drive. That
>> is
>> the first thing I am asking for help on.
>>
>> How would someone help me? (1) By talking me through the process. My
>> phone
>> number is 703-212-4812. There is a problem with that: I am hearing
>> impaired and "talkthroughs" can be very frustrating, both for me and the
>> person giving the instructions. (2) By SSH. Jon LaBadie came to my house
>> twice and installed, but I didn't consolidate the procedure mentally --
>> my
>> bad. And (3) I can come to your house. I have now had cataract surgery
>> and
>> wouldn't have a problem with a round trip of fifty miles, even at night.
>>
>> There is one other thing I would like to accomplish. I am a committed
>> Ubuntu user, but I had a second hard drive installed, intending to
>> install
>> Fedora on it. Any takers?
>>
>> Charlie
>>
>>
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