On Tuesday 17 January 2006 19:04, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Christof Hurschler wrote: > > On a freinds newly installed testing machine usb partitions that are > > plugged in are added to /media as sda1 for example. > > > > On my older machine, also running testing, this does not occur. Which > > package is doing this, or how can I enable this functionality? > > Hi Chris, > > I think you need to do the following: > > 1) Install the packages "udev", "dbus-1" and "hal". > > 2) Install the package "pmount" and add your user to the group > "plugdev". This user can now mount/unmount all pluggable devices via the > pmount/pumount command without the need for a corresponding entry in > /etc/fstab. > > 3) If you use KDE you can choose to have icons appear on the desktop > whenever such a device is plugged in; you set this in the KDE Control > Center > Desktop > Behavior > Device Icons. I am sure that Gnome has a > similar option. > > 4) If you do not want to depend on KDE or Gnome you can probably use the > packages "autofs" and "am-utils" for mounting the devices automatically. > I have never tried this myself, though, therefore I can't give you more > specific advice on this. > > I hope this helps. > > Regards, > Florian
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