[gentoo-user] newbie partiton type question

[Martin S]

Sorry bout this newbie like question but my brain isn't acting normally (so
searching on the forums didn't solve anything either) :(
I'm trying to mount my SanDisk Cruzer Micro 256 MB USB stick

I've got

/dev/sda                /mnt/usb        vfat            noauto,user     0 0

in /etc/fstab

and in fdisk /dev/sda I see

/dev/sda1               1         979      250623+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)

I can mount /dev/usb as root and r/w to it. But as user I get

martoni@SuicidalPuppy ~ $ mount /mnt/usb
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

And dmesg | tail says
...
FAT: invalid media value (0x01)
VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda.

So where am I going wrong? Please help this befuddled temporary newbie.

Regards,

Martin S