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

[Roberto Sanchez <rcsanchez97@yahoo.es>]

Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> 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

Debian can.  You just need to install kudzu (I think) and autofs.  Of
course you need to configure them for your setup.

-Roberto

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