On Sunday 23 June 2002 12:44 am, you wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > >On Saturday 22 June 2002 10:47 pm, you wrote: > >>On Saturday 22 June 2002 07:30 pm, Dennis Myers did speak unto the > >> huddled > >> > >>masses, saying: > >>>Hi all, I bought a PNY compact flash card reader, usb type and had seen > >>>where several folks were able to use it on Mandrake 8.2. I tried > >>>mounting it but it is not coming up. I used mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 > >>>/mnt/compactflash reply is /mnt/compactflash does not exist. What or > >>>how do I create a mount point for the card reader and how do I find out > >>>what it's device name is? Harddrake doesn't tell me, just says unknown. > >>>Hate to take it back the package is a pain to put back together. TIA for > >>>any help. > >> > >>if i understand you correctly (i likely don't) just make a > >>/mnt/compactflash directory. > > > >I did that and I get " mount: fs type fs=vfat not supported by kernel". > > So the line I have in fstab is: /dev/sda1 /mnt/compactflash fs=vfat > > noauto,user 0 0 > >and that just doesn't feel right. Oh I had previously done the > >"mkdir /mnt/compactflash" but nothing shows up in mtab. The directory is > >there in /mnt but nothing in it even though the card in the reader has a > >couple of pictures on it. Any ideas? All help is appreciated. > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > What happens when you do > > rpm -qa | grep hotplug > > ?? > > Civileme I get: [root@dennis dennis]# rpm -qa | grep hotplug hotplug-2002_01_14-4mdk
so I guess hotplug is installed, that's good right? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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