Removeable media doesn't mount

Jim jkipp5 at comcast.net
Fri Apr 14 23:50:10 UTC 2006


> How does the new mounting system work in FC5.   I know the old
> system was replaced with gnome-mount, but now none of my 
> stuff works on the fly any more.  I have SELinux disabled.
> 
> - PCMCIA SandDisk CF adapter would auto mount in FC4 or at 
> least show up in the /etc/fstab so the disc mounter applet in 
> Gnome could mount it.
> 
> - Cardbus Lexar CF adapter (I can ignore this one because 
> only the first kernel for FC4 had the driver compiled for it 
> anyways) =P 
> 
> Canon A85 digital camera w/ USB - doesn't open dialogs or or 
> get a mount point either.
> 
> Stephen
> 

have you looked at dmesg or /var/log/messages to see if the devices are
recognized?  
check /proc/devices and /proc/bus/usb
/sys/bus/pcmcia/..
lsmod


if you can see your devices you can mount with somethign like 

mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1  /mnt/camera






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