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Henry Bremridge wrote: > Not quite sure but with me: > > - Create a mount point (ie a directory) > - Mount the drive to that directory > > The mount command I used (as root: I have not been worked out how to > mount it as a user) is > > mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/usbHD To mount as a user read the docs for "fstab", if all you want is to allow "mount/umount", no need to be root. Recent versions of GNOME should just open an appropriate file viewer when hotplug USB devices are plugged into Debian Sarge (or better). i.e. a camera should get you a photo utility, a memory stick a file viewer. You may need an extra group security permission, I forget, but it'll say in the documentation. Similarly inserting an audio CD or (video) DVD should get you a media player, not a file viewer. If this doesn't happen you haven't configured it right, or you have odd preferences ;) "apt-get install gnome-volume-manager" is, I think, the magic command if you Debian desktop doesn't do this, but you may need to download a fair bit to make the magic happen if your Sarge is currently a boringly vanilla 2.4.27 (heck 2.4.27 is over a year old - get with this 2.6 stuff ;). Although I think you can make magic happen with 2.4.27 as well if you really want to. If people send me more USB toys I'll write more in the way of explanation ;) Simon, whose USB camera isn't simple USB storage, nor PPTP (or whatever overloaded acronym the camera protocol is) :( PS: Adrian if lsusb isn't telling you nicely formatted description, try update-usbids, doesn't fix anything, but may make the description of why it doesn't work that much more readable ;) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html