On Monday 12 December 2005 03:34, [email protected] wrote:
Hi group, I'm going to be using BDI-4 pretty soon as my mill is completed, with Jon Elson's UPC. I have 4.30 running on the computer installed in the electronics cabinet right now. The computer is somewhat buried in the cabinet so I was planning on using a USB flash drive to transfer files. I tried doing this today and I wasn't able to figure out how to mount it. Is there a way to get it to auto-mount when I plug it in? Thanks, Michael
Hi Michael Note: I do not have any USB pen drives to test this with, so much of the following is drawn from google searches and memories of setting up a USB ZIP drive. Add the following two lines to /etc/modules usbcore usb-storage (run "sudo modprobe usb-storage" to save having to reboot) With the modules loaded, a mount point needs to be created. The prefered point is in /media, so run "sudo mkdir /media/pen" to create it. An entry in /etc/fstab is also required if you want to avoid cryptic command lines to mount the pen drive. This would look something like: /dev/sda1 /media/pen vfat user,noauto 0 0 To use the pen drive, you should now be able to plug it in to the USB port and mount it with: mount /media/pen And before unplugging it, unmount with: umount /media/pen Once you have confirmed the device can be mounted, accessed, and unmounted, you can create a desktop icon to perform the mount/unmount operations. Right click on an empty spot on the desktop and navigate to 'Create New'->'Device'->'MO Device'. Fill in the boxes and you should be set to go. Setting the system up to support hotplugging is not as straight forward and may well interfere with the running of EMC should you insert/remove a pen drive. Regards, Paul.