Wow, Jim!
That looks like it could be exactly what I need - however, in my frustration
I tried installing the FreevoLive system on my computer, but what was
displeased with the end result, so I'm going to try it on Debian Sid
tomorrow. I think I was confused by the usb.storage settings, but I think
Jim's file gave be a better overview of it.
So the stuff in auto.usb assigns the device /dev/sda1 a name and mounts it,
but what does the auto.master do in relation? And also, as far as I can
tell, having a USB Stick formatted to vfat - my settings wouldn't really
need to vary that much at all, would they? In fact, I might even be able to
straight copy this? I do only have one USB Device that I use, though..
Anyway, I'll keep you posted! Thanks, guys!
Emil
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Jim Duda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I ended up solving this problem myself using automount.
>
> In my local_conf.py, I have:
>
> plugin.activate('usb')
> plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='video', args=('USB Device 1',
> '/mnt/usb/device_a'))
> plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='audio', args=('USB Device 1',
> '/mnt/usb/device_a'))
> plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='image', args=('USB Device 1',
> '/mnt/usb/device_a'))
> plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='video', args=('USB Device 2',
> '/mnt/usb/device_b'))
> plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='audio', args=('USB Device 2',
> '/mnt/usb/device_b'))
> plugin.activate('usbstorage', type='image', args=('USB Device 2',
> '/mnt/usb/device_b'))
>
> my /etc/auto.master has:
>
> #
> # Sample auto.master file
> # This is an automounter map and it has the following format
> # key [ -mount-options-separated-by-comma ] location
> # For details of the format look at autofs(5).
> #
> /misc /etc/auto.misc
> /net -hosts
> /mnt/usb /etc/auto.usb --timeout=2 --debug
> #
> # Include central master map if it can be found using
> # nsswitch sources.
> #
> # Note that if there are entries for /net or /misc (as
> # above) in the included master map any keys that are the
> # same will not be seen as the first read key seen takes
> # precedence.
> #
> +auto.master
>
> my /etc/auto.usb has:
>
> device_a -fstype=vfat,rw,gid=100,umask=002 :/dev/sda1
> device_b -fstype=vfat,rw,gid=100,umask=002 :/dev/sdb1
>
> I did run into one problem with automount, I found out that I had to
> remove /dev/random and create a link from
> /dev/random to /dev/urandom. For some reason, /dev/random was causing
> automount to not start.
>
> I hope that helps. This has worked just fine for me.
>
> Jim
>
> "Evan Hisey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Emil-
> > Gnome relies on the hal/udev/dbus trio to do automounting. Freevo
> > does not use these tools at all. Third party auotmounter will not
> > really help you at all either, or atleast if you are going to use the
> > usb plugin. Can you attach your local_config.py? Most likely issue
> > will be that you do not have teh usb plugin configured correctly.
> >
> > Evan
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Emil Visti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi, guys. I've installed Freevo on top of a totally vanilla Debian Etch
> and
> >> I have a problem that is just driving me up the walls.
> >> Now, I have everything set up in Freevo the way I would like it. That
> is no
> >> "TV" menu item, for example, as I just want to play video files on the
> box
> >> from an inserted external USB HD.
> >>
> >> However, inserting my USB HD doesn't mount it in Freevo. At least
> that's
> >> what I assume is happening.. I insert my drive and I can now choose
> "USB
> >> Disk" from the menus, but when I do choose it I get "Directory does not
> >> exist" or something similar.
> >>
> >> The thing I find odd is that the disk mounts just fine in Gnome. No
> problem
> >> what-so-ever. It mounts and plays media files in the underlying Gnome
> that
> >> Freevo runs on top of just fine. This is just baffling to me. Could
> someone
> >> explain to me what I'm doing wrong in down-to-earth terms, because I
> would
> >> really like to use Freevo, but as of now I can't use the only function
> I
> >> want..
> >>
> >> I tried installing some thirdparty automounters, but that doesn't seem
> to
> >> help either and I got confused settings them up as well.
> >>
> >> I would really appreciate any help what-so-ever. If there's an output
> of a
> >> command or anything that would maybe help me, don't hesitate to mention
> it.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >> Emil Visti
> >>
> >>
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