Re: Mounting USB stuff

2005-10-27 Thread Stephen Patterson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 23:50:15 +0200, Michael S. Peek wrote: > for that matter, without the user having to even know what "mount" means. > (After all, if I let users mount stuff, it's just a matter of time before > someone forgets to unmount, and then

Re: Mounting USB stuff

2005-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-10-26 at 17:22 -0400, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Sanjay Debian wrote: > > > I'm a n00b who's trying to figure out how to mount USB stuff. I > > hear hal will > > do just that, but when I run "lshal", I get the following error: > > > I had no idea you have to do so much jus

Re: Mounting USB stuff

2005-10-26 Thread H.S.
Michael S. Peek wrote: > My alternative option is to set up udev to recognize devices and map > them to consistent names in /dev and then add user-mountable entries in > /etc/fstab, but that may require that I create rules files for > /etc/udev/rules.d/ for (potentially) every single device that a

Re: Mounting USB stuff

2005-10-26 Thread Bruno Buys
Michael S. Peek wrote: Sanjay Debian wrote: I'm a n00b who's trying to figure out how to mount USB stuff. I hear hal will do just that, but when I run "lshal", I get the following error: I had no idea you have to do so much just to mount usb. On my unstable debian install I c

Re: Mounting USB stuff

2005-10-26 Thread Michael S. Peek
Sanjay Debian wrote: I'm a n00b who's trying to figure out how to mount USB stuff. I hear hal will do just that, but when I run "lshal", I get the following error: I had no idea you have to do so much just to mount usb. On my unstable debian install I can install my usb flash dri

Mounting USB stuff

2005-10-26 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hello users, I'm a n00b who's trying to figure out how to mount USB stuff. I hear hal will do just that, but when I run "lshal", I get the following error: # lshal lshal version 0.4.7 libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_so