Flash reader

[inflexion]

right ive been readin about them but only with reference to the 2.4 kernal and having mass storeage enabled which i know it is.

 

Its a 9in1 Flash Mover (if that helps) and this is the output from my fstab file

 

/dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,noauto,r

o,exec,users 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850 0 0

/dev/hda2 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

 

if anyone can help us out

[aRTee]

Could you be more explicit about what you need help with?

 

What exactly are you trying to do, and where does your system not do what you would like it to?

[inflexion]

im trying to mount any type of media card i put in it,

 

i have tried both my memory stick and MMC card and none will mount so i cant get the stuff if them.

[aRTee]

Disconnect the flash reader.

 

Boot the machine.

 

Then insert the memory card _before_ connecting the reader.

 

Connect the reader.

 

Monitor /var/log/messages as indicated above, and /etc/fstab.

 

Tell us your results.

[inflexion]

oh my god its workin. i feel like a right royal plum :P

 

thanks aRTee

[aRTee]

Oh, before I forget: if you use KDE on Mandrakelinux 10.1, make sure you do the updates - there are some bugs in the base install that cause loads of issues with usb storage devices and KDE...

[inflexion]

ok thanks for that but what command should i use for doing this through urpmi?

[aRTee]

use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org to setup the "updates" repository / media.

 

Then you can just use MCC - software - updates to do your security/bugfix updates.

[Darkelve]

use http://easyurpmi.zarb.org to setup the "updates" repository / media.

 

Then you can just use MCC - software - updates to do your security/bugfix updates.

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aRTee,

 

don't we have something like this on our own site?

 

Edit: ah yeah, here: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/easyurpmi/

 

I think I saw one a few days ago. Just wondering why you didn't use that page. Is the one you gave more 'official' or something like that?

[inflexion]

my urpmi is all set up i was just woundering the CLI command for it thats all ;)

[aRTee]

Darkelve - you're right, we have our own mirror here at the site.

 

The zarb.org site is the official one, but I already noticed our mirror was more up to date last week...!

 

As for the updates via the command line: this doesn't show you which packages are available and whether it's a bugfix, security or feature update, but anyway,

man urpmi

should help you out, and I think the command should be:

urpmi --update --auto --auto-select

 

Hope this helps.

[inflexion]

thanks ill try the GUI first though and remember the CLI ;)