Really Stupid question here..

[Dedric Starks]

Okay .... I've posted here a few times before.. and all.. but as simple as this sounds.. i am stumped.. any help would be appreciated with this one.

1. FreeBSD 5.4 server ...

2. 2gb USB jump drive ...

Problem: When i plug it in.. the system shows the jump drive as da1 ... however I need to cp a couple files out of /etc/ to the jump drive... yet when i go to cd /da1 it tells me.. no directory or device by that name .. .. what am i missing here? any ideas? Have i been smoking to Mountain Dew and drinking to much crack or sumpin?

[Motoma]

Okay .... I've posted here a few times before.. and all.. but as simple as this sounds.. i am stumped.. any help would be appreciated with this one.

1. FreeBSD 5.4 server ...

2. 2gb USB jump drive ...

Problem: When i plug it in.. the system shows the jump drive as da1 ... however I need to cp a couple files out of /etc/ to the jump drive... yet when i go to cd /da1 it tells me.. no directory or device by that name .. .. what am i missing here? any ideas? Have i been smoking to Mountain Dew and drinking to much crack or sumpin?

You will have to mount the device first. I am not sure about FreeBSD, but on Linux you just do mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/USBDrive.
You will need to create a directory with mkdir and then use that as the mount point.
You may also need to specify the partition type, on thumbdrives it is typically vfat.