Managing Kindle Fire with on 12.04 via Micro-USB
- by pirtle
To begin, I have read both Is there a way to get a Kindle Fire to work with 12.04? and How can I transfer files to a Kindle Fire with a Micro-USB cable?
My problem is that I am unable to mount my Kindle Fire in order to add books to it. I have installed calibre, but it is unable to manage any devices until the computer itself has recognized it.
The latter post had an excellent answer (provided by @jeremiah) that was making some progress. Unfortunately, I think I don't know enough about the -t flag used with mount.
This is what I've done...
Ran dmesg to locate the device:
[ 3.920886] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Confirmed it's location:
$ sudo ls -l /dev/disk/by-id
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 18 15:52 usb-Amazon_Kindle_3C6C002600000001-0:0 -> ../../sdb
So we know that my Kindle is recognized on /dev/sdb. I then used the mount command suggested by @jeremiah:
$ sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb/ /mnt/kindle/
mount: no medium found on /dev/sdb
The same error occurs for sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/kindle.
Note: I have created the 'kindle' directory in 'mnt'
Any suggestions?
