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non-Linux groups removed On 20 Aug 2005 10:50:25 -0700, Kent Paul Dolan staggered into the Black Sun and said:

"You had zeroes? *We* had to use the letter 'O'!"

Michael's in .de, so it's unlikely that his native lauguage is English, eh?

Load USB modules and SCSI disk modules. The USB stuff (ohcihcd, uhcihcd, ehcihcd) is typically loaded on boot in Linux. Plug USB disklike device in. "mountdev-sda1mnt-somewhere", and all the junk on the device is undermnt-somewhere . The Linux kernel makes all USB devices look like SCSI devices. dev-sda is the first SCSI disk,dev-sda1 is the first parbreastion on that disk.

Most USB storage devices are parbreastioned such that there's one parbreastion covering the whole device, but occasionally you run into a USB device without a parbreastion table, or a USB device with a mangled parbreastion table.

Automounters are, IMHO, more trouble than they're worth. Redhat 7.1 (which is so old that it has mold growing all over it) had its kudzu and hotplug scripts do automounting for USB devices. Message-ID the thread that it's part of for more automounting discussion. The big problem with automounting is that it doesn't always work right, and you don't always want to mount things. Blank CD-Rs, audio CDs, and devices with mangled parbreastion tables can't be mounted, f'rexample.0

Many "newbie-friendly" distros have automount set up in this way. Debian, Slack, and Gentoo require that you set up the hotplug-automount stuff yourself if you want that... but you really shouldn't be using one of those for your first Linux experience unless you're willing to RTFM and STFW and spend additional time getting it all working right. HTH anyway,

0 You can mount an audio CD if you've applied the cdfs patch to the kernel, but no distro kernel has that patch applied AFAIK.

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