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On Sunday 19 February 2006 14:50, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> Good morning everyone: |
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> I am hitting a bit of an issue here -- there are work arounds available |
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> but I would like to do it right. Here is the issue |
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> I use Gentoo on my laptop that I use for digital photography. When I |
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> shoot, I tend to shoot several hundred pictures at once, so I use large |
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> flash cards and a card reader (usb) to download to my computer for |
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> archiving (I archive everything). I use digikam to handle the download |
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> (I like it and that part works great) |
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> My current workflow is as follows |
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> Put flash card in reader |
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> Plug reader into usb port |
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> Wait for reader to settle |
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> Open root terminal |
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> Check dmesg for dev node for reader |
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> Mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash |
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> Do the transfer with digikam |
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> Back to root term |
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> Umount /mnt/flash |
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> Unplug reader |
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> Remove card |
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> Repeat |
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> What I would like is for either the card to be automatically recognized |
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> and mounted, or at least to not have to do it via the root terminal |
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make an appropriate entry into fstab |
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dev/sda1 /mnt/flash vfat noauto,rw,users 0 0 |
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and every user can mount/umount. |
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Make an icon on your kde desktop, click on it, and it will mount it |
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'automatically', before konqueror opens it. |
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