Dear developers, hi folks, today I failed to mount an usb stick on teacher's work station - and I did it several times on other systems!
Plugging the stick in gave some messages like "new usb device detected" or the like on a console (ALT+F1). As neiter lsusb nor usbview was installed, I went ahead installing hotplug. This removed another package called something like mogawasi (?) I never heard of, and as hotplug failed to work w/o parameter, I decided to reinstall that package. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt didn't work (as opposed to most other systems with IDE hard drives). KControl displayed only the usb hub (usb-devices). Well, admitedly I didn't try to mount my own usb stick that works definitely with linux - maybe it is a hard ware compatibility problem... +++ Anyway, I'd plea to introduce another component to the skolelinux architecture concept, replacing teacher's work station by thin client plus i/o-station: i) teachers need to im- and export data, there must be at least one cd drive and floppy eacht in the class room! ii) servers are dear and should be locked away. Additionally, servers tend to be much louder than thin clients (silent) or ordinary PCs => hence the ltsp server should not be used as teacher's station i+ii leave the work station concept to be used as teacher's PC. However this could lead to different installation sets (upgrades, installs asynchrone) => have teachers use a normal thin client and add a media pc to the room from where cds, floppies, usb drives, whatever can be mounted to the filesystem of ltspserver. Possibly, this station could also render the sound output of the system. Additionally, a scanner could be attached to that PC. What do you think? Regards Ralf
