[CVALE] USB Thumb Drive

[jamie.davis@comcast.net]

With the newer user friendly dists it is pretty much plug in play. I mainly use ubuntu and it recongizes most things like usb drives, my camera, and my psp. The build your own or hobbists linux distros are good because you have to figure things out to get things working which is good but not practical for day to day use. 

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From: "Dennis Baker" <mtbogre at gmail.com>
> This is why I've moved away from Debian/ Slackware/ Gentoo/ Build your own
> Linux.  Ubuntu, RedHat, and the more desktop oriented dists have made this
> stuff super easy.  I love Linux but I sure don't miss having to fiddle
> around with config files every time I got a new camera or printer... or
> whatever.
> 
> - Dennis
> 
> On 1/2/07, Landon Blake <lblake at ksninc.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm running Debian Sarge with the GNOME Desktop.
> >
> > I was thinking about writing a quick bash script to mount the drive.
> > I'll just double click on a short cut to this script on my desktop.
> >
> > Plug and play would be nice though.
> >
> > Landon
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
> > [mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Joshua J. Kugler
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2007 12:28 PM
> > To: cvale at cvale.org
> > Subject: Re: [CVALE] USB Thumb Drive
> >
> > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:55, Landon Blake said something like:
> > > I bought my first thumb drive last week. It was almost painless to
> > > get it working in Linux, which shocked me. (Is anything in Linux ever
> > > painless.) It wasn't quite plug and play, but almost. All I had to do
> > > was add a line in the fstab file and mount the directory representing
> > > the thumb drive. Very handy.
> >
> > What distro are you using?  In recent versions of leading distros (FC,
> > Ubuntu, Suse) all you had to do was plug in the unit, and you would get
> > a pop-up asking if you wanted to mount it.  At least if you were in a
> > GUI environment.  I've not had to edit fstab for a USB key in quite
> > some time.
> >
> > j
> >
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