HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian

[Jonathan Melhuish <lists@netacclaim.co.uk>]

I Googled for some time and looked in the list archives, etc., but could 
find nothing relevant on installing my digital camera under Debian, so I 
got bored and tried typing:

apt-get install hotplug
apt-get install usbutils
mkdir /camera
mount /dev/sda1 /camera

At which point, it worked!  I suppose I should mention I am using a 
stock "Linux debian 2.4.22-1-686" kernel, your mileage may vary with 
older kernels.

Which was all reasonably nice and straightforward, so I thought it was a 
shame I could find any instructions that suggested it.  It was even 
easier under Mandrake, I just stuck it in and it appeared on the 
desktop; I guess it would be kinda nice if Debian did that, too.

Cheers,

Jon