Chuckk Hubbard wrote:
On 7/28/06, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Before migrating from Mandriva 2006 to Debian 3.1 r2 I copied
everything on /home/robin to an external hard drive which connects to
my PC through a usb port. I had planned to copy it back to my hdd
after the Debian install was complete.
>
> I now have Debian installed but it doesn't recognize my usb port.
I have tried to find it using konqueror and from a terminal as su
without success.
>
> Can someone please help me to recover this information.
>
> Robin
What kernel are you using? I feel if you upgrade to a 2.6.8 kernel
image, and install gnome-volume-manager (with hal), that your USB drive
will be found. I'd recommend the default (gnome) desktop too. Then
your USB drive will likely just appear on your desktop (you'd need to
reboot after installing this stuff, though, at which point, I'm guessing
that your USB drive will be found, and shown right on your desktop.
Is that really supposed to happen?
I previously tried to install pmount and hal, and in so doing
uninstalled hotplug. Don't ask me, that's what apt-get says. Well
this wrecked my xwindows, so I undid it. I've searched high and low
for new things to try. This does seem to be like problem #1 that
people have.
I have an AGNULA kernel, 2.6.14-1-multimedia.
usbview shows the flash drive in red. tail -f /var/log/messages does
indicate that the usb thing is plugged in, typically to two addresses
each time.
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb tells me "not a valid block device"
mount -t usbfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb says nothing, but I have meaningless
files in /mnt/usb; a file called devices and folders 001 and 002,
which have files named 001 and 002 in them.
I've never heard of usb drives just showing up when you plug them in
in Linux. Is that for real?
2.6.14? Lord, I've not heard of that being a part of Debian Sarge (3.1
r2). I initially assumed you were using 2.4.27, and thought it would be
helpful to upgrade to 2.6.8.
I myself noticed that usb drives, and similar storage devices (like
digital cameras) would just show up on my desktop when I plugged them in
and turned them on. This only happened after I had upgraded to a 2.6.8
kernel from the initial default of 2.4.27 that I had been given to start
with. The important thing to make sure you have on your system is
gnome-volume-manager. Auto-mounting of usb drives is accomplished with
the package usbmount (it's not necessary to have this, though -- the
drive will appear in the Computer file of nautilus, where you can mount
it yourself.)
Given that you've already got a higher kernel than the 2.4.27, and
probably already have gnome-volume-manager installed, I'm not sure what
to suggest. If you don't have gnome-volume-manager installed, do so now.
I'll say that when I was using Sarge, it worked great (sound gave me
some trouble, but after working that out, it was flawless). Then, I got
curious. I messed around with debian-backports, then I tried to upgrade
to Etch (at the time there were some circular dependencies between udev,
and the kernel image). Anyway, I regretted that (curiousity killed the
cat, and my Debian set up). I mention this because some of the issues
you describe sound similar to what I went through. I finally did get
Etch installed, which was a challenge.
It sounds to me like you're using something beyond the official Sarge.
When I used Sarge, the set up with hotplug and gnome-volume-manager
worked to find and display usb devices. The newer Debian, (Etch) is
moving away from hotplug, and relying on udev to find devices. This
(and other stuff) is a big transition, (which is why Sarge is 3.1, and
Etch will be 4.0) From what you say, it sounds like your machine is
somewhere in the middle of Sarge and Etch, giving some odd results (I'm
just a regular user; so, others would know better). You may want to
change your repositories in your sources.list to Etch, since, I'm
guessing, you're halfway there anyway. Or perhaps installing yaird, if
you've got it in your repositories, would help (note, I am not an
expert; so, this last advice could be dead wrong).
Good luck!
PS, to show you that USB drives just showing up is "for real", I'll
email you a couple of screenshots I took. Both taken at 18:21 (6:21
PM), the first before I had turned on the USB drive, and the 2nd just
after I flicked the switch and turned on the USB drive. These are with
Etch, but it did the same in Sarge.
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