NOTE: This assumes you've installed VMware Player and the CS105 VM image you were given by your instructor.

1. Start VMware Player and open up the CS105 image.

2. Log in as user 'student' with the password 'password'. (without the quotes)

3. Plug the flash drive into the USB port on your PC.  (Windows will see it 
first, but ignore this.)

4. In VMware Player, click on the VM menu and select Removeable Devices->USB 
and you should see the name of your flash drive listed in the menu.  Select it.

5. Inside of Linux, you should see (after a moment) a few system messages 
reporting that the drive has been discovered.  It will also note what device 
name has been assigned to the drive.  (Usually either sdb or sda)

6. You have to mount the drive before you can use it, but to do that you have 
to set up a few things first.  Use the su command to become root.  
(The password is 'password' [without the quotes])

7. First we have to have a place in the file system where our mounted drive 
will show up.  All we need for this is an empty folder somewhere, so we'll 
create one.

	cd /media
	mkdir flash

When we mount the drive, the files will show up under /media/flash.

Now that we have a place to mount the drive, let's tell Linux about it.

8. Open the file /etc/fstab in whatever text editor you prefer.  You should 
see a line that looks sort of like this:

/dev/fd0	/media/floppy	auto	noauto,user,rw	0	0

Copy and paste this line, then modify the copy so it reads:

/dev/sdb1	/media/flash	auto	noauto,user,rw	0	0

(This assumes that your flash drive was identified as sdb.  Use sda1 if 
Linux sees it as device sda.)

9.  That should do it.  Type 'exit' to return to being the student user.
To mount the flash drive, type:

mount /media/flash

There should be a pause while the drive mounts but then you should get your
command prompt back.  Now you can treat /media/flash like any other folder
in your file system.