I decided to connect everything I have when installing. This turned out to be a good thing as there was a big muddle on rebooting.
What was connected to the USB buses: Motherboard port - Sony Clie PEG-T675 (with Memory Stick, intended to be mounted) Hub 1 - Lexmark Z42 printer Hub 1 - Hama Memory Stick card reader (with Memory Stick, intended to be mounted) Hub 1 - Alcatel Speedtouch USB Hub 2 - iomega zipCD 650 USB The installation was fairly uneventful; diskdrake recognised the Clie MS and offered to mount it as /dev/sda1. On reboot all hell broke loose, with kernel panics and the Speedtouch not being recognised as a connected device. The cure was: i. remove the Clie (permanently); ii. remove the automount /dev/sda1 entry in /etc/fstab; iii. move the Speedtouch to the motherboard port. (The printer and zipCD were always recognised, and worked). Then I could reboot; the Speedtouch was recognised and, although automounting was gone, I could do the usual: mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 ... then read and write to the Memory Stick inside the Hama reader. The installation logs and system log on reboot (and after) can be got from: http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/2sd.tar.bz2 http://www.unmetered.org.uk/misc/syslog.txt (19:38 entries) They are revealing; I don't like the repeated occurences of 'weird' which suggests that the multiplicity of devices has totally confused the installer :( Alastair
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