Copying M$ files over to linux. Digital camera driver.

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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Copying M$ files over to linux. Digital camera driver.
This means I could just use the camera as a USB drive (reader/writer)! I don't
have to go by a special drive.
Right?

On Friday 02 January 2004 10:45 am, Jim said:
~ When you plug in the digital camera under linux tail /var/log/messages
~ "tail -f /var/log/messages" and see what device the camera is now listed
~ as eg sda1 then cd to sda1 and you can copy files from the camera as if
~ it was any other piece of removable media.
~
~ You could use the article below  about usb thumb drives as a reference
~ since once you plug the camera into the usb port it should behave just
~ like a usb thumb drive would.
~
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~ http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6867
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~ Jim
~
~
~
~ On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 17:51, Michael Havens wrote:
~ > Well, I got a digital camera for Christmas (Kodak CX6330). As gtkam does
 not ~ > support this model as of yet I am again using the M$98 side of my
 system. ~ > This means that I have to copy the files I download to the linux
 side of my ~ > box; but when I try to it tells me that the file that I have
 dragged to the ~ > Linux Desktop does not exist.
~ >                          ????????? WHAT ???????
~ > What am I doing wrong?  I tried chmod 776 hda1 but the permissions
 wouldn't ~ > change.... on second thought it is a good thing the permissions
 wouldn't ~ > change because if you write to a windows partition from Linux
 it becomes ~ > unusable to M$ products. (unless one of you knows how to get
 around that) ~ >
~ > Well I did it! I am not sure how I did it but it is done. After all of
 the ~ > pics were in Linux chmod worked without a problem. Actually I moved
 ~ > everything via the command line.
~ >
~ > I'll do a google tomorrow when I have internet access concerning the
 driver ~ > for the camera..... unless one of you knows something of off the
 top of your ~ > head.
~ >
~ > Is there a way to change the permissions on hda1 that will not adversly
 affect ~ > the system? That way I can drag and click and not have to do
 things from the ~ > command line.
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