> Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > > FAR more problems than im willing to go through > > (the shortest set of instructions ive seen so far for automount is like > > 3 pages) > + > > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > = > LOL. > > After this, I find quite odd you have to be root to mount a USB stick. > I've never had to be root to do it. > > My /etc/fstab says: > /dev/sdb1 /mnt/removable vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0 > and I can mount it as a user just by clicking on its icon on Konqueror, > for example. > > I think what you really need, however, is not automount but maybe HAL. > Check in the wiki and/or docs for info, and don't run away in fear if > you see some page of instruction... after all, you're using Gentoo! :)
[Timothy A. Holmes] HI Thanks for the response -- I tried the additional stuff in /etc/fstab that you mentioned and when I hook up the usb drive and type /mount/sda1 /mnt/flash -- I get You must be root to mount I don't know whats up with it. I appreciate the suggestion though -- at this point, I guess its gonna take more troubleshooting time than I have to spend, so I will back burner it for a while till the workload eases up a bit -- I was hoping it was a simple setting change. I don't fear pages of instructions at all, I truly enjoy it, the problem is more the amount of time taken to execute what I want - -I have a number of really pressing problems right now that im working on, so I will fiddle with this later. TIM Timothy A. Holmes IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher Medina Christian Academy A Higher Standard... Jeremiah 33:3 Jeremiah 29:11 Esther 4:14 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
