Please help a newbie with "Failed to intialize HAL!"

[Wawrzyniec Niewodniczański]

2009/1/14 Paul Williams <pmpbw at hotmail.com>

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>
> /dev/sdb1  on  /media  type  vfat
> (rw)                                                (sdb1 is here. What does
> sdb stand for?)
>

/dev is catalogue with files symbolising all devices (DEVices) connect to
the machine (less or more).

sdb1 consist from 3 parts:

sd - was reserve to SCSI disk no is state for any hard drive (in most case)
b - means second drive connected
1 - first partition on this drive

(You might want to check documents like this one:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs04)

>
>
> Then I typed  cd  /media
> ls
> I got a list of the files on my USB memory stick
>
> This is a major breakthrough, since my machine does not show the USB memory
> stick or the SD memory card when I click on Advanced mode in Files.
> But I don't know how to copy my files to the media.
> I tried
>
> sudo   cp  /Documents  /media
> and  I got  cp: cannot stat  '/Documents': No such file or directory
>

'/' - in the path symbolize the root of the system. All path start from it,
but I'm pretty sure that Documents directory is not located in '/'.

I.e. my home directory is

/home/niewod

(on Mac it will be /Users/niewod)

So please try

cd /home
ls
check if you have any names, let say XXX

cp /home/XXX/Documents /media

or something similar.

I hope it might be a bit helpful.
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