Bob Scofield wrote: > I had some questions arising out of my effort to set Sarge up like SuSE, which > allows me to drag and drop pictures from a digital camera to my hard drive. > On SuSE I just go to the My Computer icon, and click on an icon for a USB > disk. This all happens in the Konqueror web browser. > > A few weeks ago Bill gave Pete directions on how to set up the My Computer > icon on KDE. I've followed those directions, but have been unsuccessful in > getting an icon that will give me a GUI access to the camera. > > The first problems I encountered were permissions problems; e.g. "Only root > can mount /dev/sda1 on /media/camera." I still haven't solved these > problems. It's confusing because /dev/sda1 seems to have the same > permissions on SuSE and Debian. But I have become interested in the > following issue. > > One error message is something like "/dev/sda1 is not found in fstab or mtab." > In SuSE the following entry automatically appears in mtab any time that the > camera is plugged into the usb port: > "/dev/sda1 /media/usb-0039731344:0:0:0p1 subfs rw,no > exec,nodev,sync,procuid,iocharset=utf8 0 0." In my cheesy way, I began > putting variations of this entry into my Sarge fstab. I got different error > messages, but became interested in the one that said that the Sarge kernel > had no support for subfs. > > After Googling, I came across this website: http://submount.sourceforge.net/ > > I am starting to think that SuSE is automatically mounting the usb port when > the camera is attached because of "Submount." The web site claims that Sarge > is one of the distros that has a binary form of Submount available. But I > can't find such a package on the Debian website. So here are my questions: > > 1) Do people agree that it's Submount that is allowing SuSE to automatically > mount the usb port when the camera is plugged into the computer? > > 2) Does anybody know if Sarge has a Submount package that can be gotten with > apt-get?
Use pmount and add yourself to the plugdev group. I know pmount is integrated with gnome. I don't know about kde. > 3) Is anybody dragging and dropping camera photos from the camera to the > computer on Debian? If so, how do you set this up? > > I may be back later for the permissions issues.
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