Usb storage

USB storage are USB harddisks and USB sticks.

Find them

The first challenge is to find your USB storage in order e.g. to mount it. To do this,

• open a console
• connect your USB storage device
• type

dmesg

• you will find some output like

[...]
[23329.272525] usb 2-1.6: new high speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[23329.358270] usb 2-1.6: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5567
[23329.358276] usb 2-1.6: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[23329.358280] usb 2-1.6: Product: Cruzer Blade
[23329.358283] usb 2-1.6: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[23329.358286] usb 2-1.6: SerialNumber: 20052444311405B07CB9
[23329.358847] scsi8 : usb-storage 2-1.6:1.0
[23330.357920] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer Blade     1.20 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
[23330.358176] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[23330.359419] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] 62530624 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB)
[23330.361137] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Write Protect is off
[23330.361144] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[23330.362036] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[23330.370242]  sdh: sdh1
[23330.372906] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI removable disk

This means your USB storage device has been detected and is accessible as /dev/sdh. It has one partition, /dev/sdh1.

Make them bootable

See make a USB disk bootable.