[jggimi]

Step 1. Use one of many ways to display kernel messages. Here are three:

1. Point your workstation display to the console (alt-ctrl-F1)
2. Use xconsole(1)
3. use $ tail -f /var/log/messages

Step 2. Connect your USB drive.

Step 3. Watch the kernel messages as the mass storage device is assigned an sd(4) device number.

Step 4. Use that device number as discussed above.