Linux Flash Drive - How to mount

I am very new to Linux. I am using Fedora Core 2 at one of the work stations here at LDSBC. It wasnt recognizing my flash drive so I "googled" for the answer and these are the steps that I found to make sure you can see the device, directory is created, and the flash drive is mapped.

Steps
1. Open Terminal on you linux machine
2. To make sure you can see the flash drive type:
less /proc/bus/usb/devices
2a. You will need to use the Up and Down arrow keys on your keyboard
to scroll through the list of devices. You should then see the description
of the device.

3. When you see the drive open a new terminal window and type the following.
mkdir /mnt/usb1 (type with the space, this makes the directory)

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb1 (this maps the drive)

4. You are done! Browse to it by going to computer on the desktop,  select file system, select mnt, 
     then select Usb1 and you will see the files on your usb drive.

If you have any other tips please post them. This probably isnt the easist way to do it, but it works.