The problem is that he doesn't know what the chardev of the USB device is, bro... :) At least I think so, that's why he's having so much trouble.Does the "lsusb" command work Lim? If that does, type "lsusb -v" and look for... well, something that sounds like a usb key. That's gonna suck though, FYI. You could try looking at the "/var/log/messages" file if it exists too.Or just load up any GUI program that can autodetect when a device gets plugged in. When you plug it in, the kernel (BSD, Linux, doesn't matter) creates a file that you can use to access the device. It's the filename that you need. So all you have to do is find out what the name of that is. It's probably the last one named "sXX" in /dev/. You'll have one per hard drive -- so if it's a laptop, it's going to have "sda" as the internal hard drive, and the usb key would be "sdb."... this is based on Linux. I never use macs, so if anybody's got a better idea, by all means -- tell me to shutup.