Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 17:33:55 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > > As long as you had the hal USE flag set when you emerged KDE, it > > should detect the device and offer to mount it for you (KDE 3.5 has > > an option to mount it automatically). You may need to fiddle with the > > settings in the Storage

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-03 Thread Richard Fish
On 4/3/06, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As long as you had the hal USE flag set when you emerged KDE, it should > detect the device and offer to mount it for you (KDE 3.5 has an option to > mount it automatically). You may need to fiddle with the settings in the > Storage Media sectio

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 03 Apr 2006 20:15:31 +, b.n. wrote: > > No you don't. The automounters in KDE and GNOME don't want fstab > > entries for the devices. > > Not using automounters, I'm quite puzzled. > Do they build a temporary mount point or what? What if I *want* them to > use a mount point I decide?

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-03 Thread b.n.
Neil Bothwick wrote: No you don't. The automounters in KDE and GNOME don't want fstab entries for the devices. Not using automounters, I'm quite puzzled. Do they build a temporary mount point or what? What if I *want* them to use a mount point I decide? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing l

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 16:42:30 -0800, Lord Sauron wrote: > No, I had to manually create a mount point via the GUI and then enable > the thing and all this stuff. Then KDE just looked at /media and > slapped that on my desktop. I mounted my windows partition (back when > I had one) on /media so tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-03 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 01 Apr 2006 03:09:07 +, b.n. wrote: > > I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? > > Not only you can: you actually have to! :) No you don't. The automounters in KDE and GNOME don't want fstab entries for the devices. -- Neil Bothwick Head: (n.) the part of a disk drive wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-01 Thread maxim wexler
Don't know if it relates to your case but I had a similar problem until I realized the device was formatted FAT16. Once I added proper support to my kernel config it was smooth sailing. --- Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - again. > > You are totally free to get tired of me and > com

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-04-01 Thread Mait
2006/4/1, Lord Sauron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 3/31/06, Mait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) > > Relax? Sounds like something that unemployed people do : \ Sorry for my poor english : ) It means "sorry, too many docs to read" oh.. english drive me crazy > > It's als

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:07:16PM -0800, Lord Sauron wrote > > > > $ man mount > > > $ man fstab > > > > Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was > > only for commands and stuff... > > There are man pages for just abo

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 08:07:16PM -0800, Lord Sauron wrote > > $ man mount > > $ man fstab > > Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was > only for commands and stuff... There are man pages for just about every file in the /etc directory. For optional packages, you do

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, Mait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! don,t hurry relax ~ : ) Relax? Sounds like something that unemployed people do : \ > It's also useful in traditional way > $ man mount > $ man fstab Wow... I didn't know that man had a fstab entry. I thought it was only for commands and stuff.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Mait
basic method : $ mount [-t fstype...] [-o options...] /dev/sda1 /mountpoint $ ls /mountpoint convenient way : add entry in /etc/fstab, /dev/sda1/mountpointfstype...options then, you can mount this way $ mount /dev/sda1 or, $ mount /mountpoint more convenient, modern way : udev, h

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? > > Not only you can: you actually have to! :) > Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in > december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if > now it's dif

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread b.n.
I can just nano /etc/fstab and add /dev/sda1? Not only you can: you actually have to! :) Check the Gentoo handbook for details. When I did install Gentoo (in december 2004), I had to write *all* my fstab by hand, I don't know if now it's different. I thought fstab was generated by the mach

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
On 3/31/06, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that > > I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install. However, > > /dev/sda1 isn't in /etc/fstab, though usbfs is in /etc/mtab. > > > > Well, I've narrowed it down to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread b.n.
Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install. However, /dev/sda1 isn't in /etc/fstab, though usbfs is in /etc/mtab. > Well, I've narrowed it down to at least one thing: I don't have a mount point for my poor US

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Teresa and Dale
Lord Sauron wrote: >>Sort of a side thing... what's the difference between fstab and mtab? >> >> > > > >Thanks for your help!' > >-- >== GCv3.12 == >GCS d-(++) s+: a? C++ UL+> P+ >L++ E--- W+(+++) N++ o? K? w--- O? M+ >V? PS- PE+ Y-(--) PGP- t+++ 5? X R tv-- b+ >

[gentoo-user] Mounting USB Flash Drive

2006-03-31 Thread Lord Sauron
Hi - again. You are totally free to get tired of me and completely ignore me. Please, just make sure that you all don't do it all at the same time ; ) Anyways, I've been working to try and mount my USB Flash disk so that I can use the stuff I backed up from my old Kubuntu install. However, /dev