invalid mout option

[dvsevin]

very lost on ancient distro. i got a Fiesty Fawn distro given to me, knowing nothing i ran... i cant mout my usb flash drive i have tried everythng i can understand. about a million posts read videos watch and still nowhere.
help!
cody@cody-laptop:~$ mkdir /mnt/sda1
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/sda1': File exists
cody@cody-laptop:~$ mount/dev/sda1/mnt/sda1
bash: mount/dev/sda1/mnt/sda1: No such file or directory
cody@cody-laptop:~$ /etc/fstab
bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied
cody@cody-laptop:~$ sudo-/etc/fstab
bash: sudo-/etc/fstab: No such file or directory
cody@cody-laptop:~$ mount/dev/sda1/mnt/sda1
bash: mount/dev/sda1/mnt/sda1: No such file or directory
cody@cody-laptop:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/sda1
Password:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/sda1': File exists
cody@cody-laptop:~$ mount/dev/sda1/mnt/sda1
bash: mount/dev/sda1/mnt/sda1: No such file or directory
cody@cody-laptop:~$
cody@cody-laptop:~$
cody@cody-laptop:~$ HELP HELP

[deadflowr]

Try this:

first :

sudo mkdir /mnt/sillyname

second:

sudo chown me:me /mnt/sillyname

third:

sudo mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/sillyname

see if that helps.

Change the X in the mount to whatever number the drive is.
Change the name to whatever floats your boat.
And change the permissions and ownership to whatever pleases you.

[mapes12]

If the USB stick is of large capacity it may be formatted to exFAT by default. You will need extra packages to support this. Google:

Ubuntu exfat

for a ton of guides.

Mark

[dvsevin]

it is formated in vfat

[mapes12]

The vfat driver is used in linux to read and write FAT32 and FAT16 partitions. What capacity is the USB stick?

[dvsevin]

it a usb reader, i have 3 micro sd cards im trying to use 4,8,16gb and non work. the 4gig is a live disk for fiesty

[schragge]

From your output it looks like the space key on your keyboard doesn't work reliably . Try what deadflowr suggests above. And don't forget spaces between commands and their parameters.