Re: [newbie] Problem with mounting my flash drive

[Mikkel L. Ellertson]

Dennis Myers wrote:
On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:14 am, Paul Smith wrote:
 

On Apr 9, 2005 5:02 AM, Dennis Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
   

I do not know why, but now I cannot use my flash drive, getting the
following error:
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/usbdisk
         

Paul, I was having the same problem in 10.2 rc2 with cooker upgrade. So
I set the append line in lilo to noapic & nolapic and on boot with the
device plugged in or plugging in after It is detected and accessable.
HTH
       

Oh man, if I would read and not  jump...... any chance you went to
console and typed in as "su" mount /dev/sda1  /media/usbdisk ?   or look
in MCC and see what harddrake calls the device. HTH
     

Thanks, Dennis, but I do not understand quite well what you mean. Yes,
if I run the command
mount /media/usbdisk
then, I can use my flash disk.
Paul
   

Right, this seems to be the way 10.1 works. It must first have a removable 
drive mounted and then it will allow it to be read. 10.2 has changed this and 
works much better for hotplugging. 10.2 should be out in a few days now. 
 

On my system, a stock 10.1, with the standard upgrades, but not with KDE 
upgraded to a newer version, plugging in a flash drive results in it 
being mounted on /mnt/removable, and I am able to access it without 
problem. But people that have upgraded KDE have run into problems 
because of the other packages that need to be upgraded to use the new 
KDE packages. It seams to break the 10.1 hotplug setup...

Mikkel
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