Digital cams & Linux

[joel]

> 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?

It might not, though it may just require some deep voodoo magic. ;-)

The 'special device * does not exist' error occurs because you don't have a 
device entry defined in /dev. We'll fix that by creating a few. Try this (as 
root):

mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda b 8 0
mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda1 b 8 1
mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda2 b 8 2
mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda3 b 8 3
mknod --mode=660 /dev/sda4 b 8 4

... that should probably be enough. /dev/sda is the first SCSI disk; 
/dev/sda1 is its first partition; /dev/sda2 is its second, and so on. The 
usb-storage module makes a USB device look like an SCSI device to the 
computer. I'm assuming that the node numbers will be the same on your machine 
that they are on my machines...

Then:

chgrp disk /dev/sda*    # so you can read the device without being root

Plug in the camera, turn it on, and as a normal user, type:

mount /mnt/pix

...and keep your fingers crossed! ;-)

--Joel