Re: HOW-TO get a USB mass storage device to work under Debian
With my sarge laptop, I needed to add the kernel module usb-storage to the
list of modules that hotplug tries when it detects a new connected device.
This is specified in the field DRIVERS in the file usb.agent.
Gregor
On Saturday 13 di December 2003 23:26, H. S. wrote:
> 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.
>
> Which camera are you talking about?
>
> I have accessed two cameras in Debian: the Canon A300 successfully
> (using gphoto and gtkam), and Sony TRV25 minidv camcorder as a USB
> storage device.
>
> With the second, I have a line in my /etc/fstab with which I just plug
> in the camera and type:
> $> mount /sony-minidv
>
> and that is it.
>
> Here is what I have in /etc/fstab:
> /dev/sda1 /sony-minidv vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
>
>
> HTH,
> ->HS
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