Lost in Flash Drive PCI USB SCSI hotplug, etc.

[Marcelo Giles]

Congrats Walt! Good job.

Now, what about having your new toy mount itself (while saying: look 
Walt, no hands!).

Here are the steps you should try. I'm not saying this gonna work 
flawlessly for you, but it's worth trying, specially after all the 
trouble you have been through.

0- umount and unplug the flash drive.

1- Edit your /etc/fstab file and comment out the line you added for the 
flash drive.

2- Edit the /ect/auto.master file and uncomment the last line 
(/misc/etc/auto.misc --timeout=60).

3- Edit the /etc/auto.misc file and add the following line at the end 
of it:

flash   -fstype=vfat   :/dev/sda1

4- Execute (as root) service autofs restart.

5- Plug the flash drive.

6- Do an ls /misc/flash.

If everything worked as expected, there should be your flash thing. You 
should be able to use it normally.

7- You can rmdir the /mnt/flash directory, you won't need it anymore 
and you can delete the flash drive line from the /etc/fstab file for 
good.

Good luck. Hope it works.

If it doesn't, you can always trace back your steps and leave 
everything as it was.

--
Marcelo

On Aug 6, 2004, at 7:33 PM, Walt Pawley wrote:
>
> Disk geometry for /dev/sda: 0.000-250.000 megabytes
> Disk label type: msdos
> Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
> 1          0.004    250.000  primary   FAT
>
> So, once again I tried mounting ...
>
> # mount -t msdos /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash
>
> and it came back with a ...
>
> #
>
> ... which just about caused me to fall off my chair.
>
> This seems like a workable condition for the Flash Drive. I can see it 
> on
> YDL, on Mac OS X (and should be without X as well) and supposedly on
> Windoze systems as well.
>
>
> -- 
> Walter M. Pawley