Automounting Camera-USB mass storage

landon kelsey landonmkelsey at hotmail.com
Tue Sep 2 15:57:30 UTC 2008


things are worse in F9/KDE

Look in the file manager

There was a time when flash memory/camera cards opened automatically 

and placed an icon on the screen.

I have a beautiful screenshot of these icons!








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> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 10:52:05 -0500
> From: mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: Automounting Camera-USB mass storage
> 
> Chris G wrote:
>> Is is easy to get a USB Camera to automount in Fedora 8, if so how do
>> you do it?
>> 
>> I have an Olympus C-460 camera and I'm getting fed up with having to
>> look in /var/log/messages to see what the device name is and then
>> manually issuing the mount command.
>> 
> If you are running Gnome, check System --> Preferences --> Hardware
> --> Removable Drives and Media - there are tabs for different types
> of media, and how to handle them. For removable media, it also helps
> to have a label - HAL will then mount it at /media/ instead of
> using a generic name. (It sometimes fails to do an auto-mount on
> unlabeled media.)
> 
> Mikkel
> -- 
> 
>   Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
> for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
> 

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