Need Linux digital camera advice

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Sep 4 19:25:31 MST 2005


On Sun, 2005-09-04 at 11:22 -0700, Bart Garst wrote:
> Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 September 2005 05:58 am Bart Garst kindly wrote:
> > 
> >>We have an Olympus Camedia C-450, and I have to agree with Craig,
> >>the card reader is the way to go.
> >>
> >>Our camera uses XD picture cards. I simply insert the card into the
> >>reader, mount it and copy my pictures to my hard drive. Piece of
> >>cake!
> > 
> > 
> > I'll definitely get the card reader; it sounds like a great solution. 
> > I'm using Kanotix (Debian Sid) with Supermount enabled. Do I need to 
> > add a line in fstab to mount it? If I have to add a line to fstab, 
> > can someone please give me an example?
> > 
> > Thanks, everybody.
> > 
> > Siri Amrit
> 
> I created a directory in /mnt and added it to fstab:
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> /dev/sda1       /mnt/camera     vfat    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> I always mount manually as a normal user. I have it set to mount read 
> only so I don't accidentally erase any photos.
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before you go about fixing things - you should see if they work first -
things are really moving rapidly in this area of USB/automount and what
works for one person on their system doesn't necessarily work for
another.

Craig



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