Digital cams & Linux

[Rodney K]

On Sat, 2001-12-22 at 17:23, joel wrote:
> If you are running a fairly new distribution, this may work to set it up 
> (note that this has to be done as root):
> 
> mkdir /mnt/pix			# create the mount point
> modprobe usb-storage	# this kernel module recogizes usb drives, etc.
> 
> # create an fstab entry for the mount point, so a user can mount the drive
> # this command will append the new entry to your fstab table
> echo >>/etc/fstab /dev/sda1 /mnt/pix vfat user,sync 0 0
> 
> Then, plug in the camera, and as a normal user, type:
> 
> mount /mnt/pix
> 
> If it works, it'll treat your camera as a removable disk. You can copy files 
> to and from the camera normally. 
> 
> umount /mnt/pix when you're finished, then un-plug the camera.
> 
Well I did everything as you said and when trying to mount I get an
error message saying "mount: special device /dev/sda1 does not exist" So
I guess it may not work?

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