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viergeame

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 12

USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

Some time ago I asked for help with getting my USB drive to mount.  I went through most of the solutions given and ended up just giving up since the flash drive wasn't essential at that point. 

When I try to access the drive I get a message saying the feature is only available with hal.  When I last asked about this I was told I needed hal and dbus, so I got both of those.  The problem was when I set them to run on start up my computer wouldn't boot.  It got to that point of the boot process, said I was out of memory, and just sat there giving me that message over and over again.  I eventually ended up using a rescue disk my friend gave me and was able to get everything working again, but ini order to do that I had to remove hal from the start up.  So, I still can't get my flash drive working and I'm not sure what to do from here.

I'm not sure what information will be needed, but I remember last time being asked how much memory I have.  I have 512mb physical and a 256mb swap.

Last edited by viergeame (2007-07-26 22:21:21)

lilsirecho

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Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

You might get the flash drive to run if you set it up in fstab with the correct drive label and fs and provide a mount point in /mnt.  Works for me....

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viergeame

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 12

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

The drive already mounts and shows up in the fstab and on my media list with the rest of my hard drives.  I still can't access it.

smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 211

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

May I see your /etc/fstab?

Try these options "vfat user,noauto,umask=0000  0 0"

viergeame

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 12

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom   iso9660   ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/fd0   vfat   user,noauto   0      0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/USB auto noauto,user,rw,exec,noatime 0 0

I tried the options you gave me and they didnt seem to work either.  I still get the message about hal.

steven

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Registered: 2007-07-17

Posts: 56

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

If you want to use DBUS/HAL for automounting USB devices, you do _not_ need an entry in the fstab. If you're using a desktop environment like XFCE, KDE or Gnome, then they have volume management built in, utilising HAL. External devices will be mounted in the /media directory. Make sure you have hal in your daemons array in /etc/rc.conf.

Which desktop environment are you using?

viergeame

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 12

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

I'm using KDEmod right now.  I can't put hal in my /etc/rc.conf.  I tried that once and when I restarted it stuck on the daemon loading said I didn't have enough memory to finish booting.

nikron

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Registered: 2007-05-15

Posts: 130

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

When you stick in your flash drive, what happens when you do 'fdisk -l' as root?

viergeame

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 12

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

 Disk /dev/sda: 6007 MB, 6007357440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 730 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1           5       40162   83  Linux
/dev/sda2               6          38      265072+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3              39         612     4610655   83  Linux
/dev/sda4             613         730      947835   83  Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 1028 MB, 1028653056 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1               1        3924     1004528    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)

Is this what you were looking for?

viergeame

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Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 12

Re: USB Flash Drive [SOLVED]

I got it fixed.  A friend suggested that I make sure hal was on the end of the list on the daemon array, and that fixed it.  It turned out a lot more simple than I expected.