Flash memory reader
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The only way I can view or use photos from my memory reader (or camera) is to fire up a 2004.6 live disk. After logging in as root I can grab the photos and drag them to my installed 3.3 on the hard drive. Back in 3.3 I have to change the permissions so I can rename, crop, etc. It shouldn't oughta be this way. 3.3 recognizes the little Lexar media reader on boot, but does not add a "dynamic" line to the FSTAB, making the device unmountable. Whatever does this coding trick is either broke or missing. I downloaded and installed 3.3 twice from the Mepis FTP, once from a CD-R and the other on CD-RW - same result both times. Got too many configurations and installed software now to do that again. Anyone have any suggestions on making this work?
borderlinemad (as in insane - not angry)
info on pendrives
Posts: 255
See also this post:
http://www.mepis.org/project/pmautomount
Vince LaPorte
Marshall, MN 56258
Flash reader #2
Posts: 3
I'd love to adjust the fstab! The problem is that although the hardware is recoginized on initial boot, it is not assigned a /dev designation nor is the fstab updated in either "dynamic" or "static" areas.
2004.6 recognizes the device AND updates the fstab. Since both OS are run on the same machine with no changes to hardware configuration, then the only thing I can assume is that something is either missing or broke in 3.3 (at least in my copy - but as stated earlier, I downloaded 2 separate ISOs and got the same result). Any sugestions will be greatly appreciated.
fix fstab
Posts: 255
Sir,
Please fix fstab - I did.
My USB pendrive was recognized only if it was plugged in before bootup (hard drive install). So I looked at /ect/fstab configuration file (plain text) in the dynamic entries and copied the special line that set up my pendrive. Then I pasted that line above the dynamic entries and now I can plug in my pendrive anytime and it is recognized. Here is my /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hdb3 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
# Dynamic entries
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,dev,ro 0 0
/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy vfat,ext2,hfsplus noauto,users,dev 0 0
My new line is underlined.
Luck,
Vince
Vince LaPorte
Marshall, MN 56258