On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 21:38 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2005/11/9, Josh Battles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've got an iPod that I'd like to use and for the life of me I can't figure > > out how to mount the thing. > > > > I'm running Sarge and have the debian package for gtkpod installed, as well > > as USB support compiled into my kernel (2.4.27). I've never used a USB > > device under linux before, all of my devices has the appropriate interfaces > > (parallel/ps2/etc) so I've not had the need. > > > > If I connect the iPod, its screen tells me not to remove it, but I cannot > > see > > that it's mounted anywhere. From what I've been able to gather through > > googling it should show up as a SCSI device but it does not. > > > > What am I missing here? > > I have an ipod mini and I am able to mount it using the following: > > 1. connect the ipod and use the dmesg command to see if it was > detected. You should see somthing like: > > usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2 > Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > .... [snip] > Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > > 2. Create a mount point for the ipod. > # mkdir /media/ipod > 3 Edit /etc/fstab and add: > /dev/sda2 /media/ipod vfat user,noauto,rw 0 0 > > No you should be able to mount your ipod with: $ mount /media/ipod > > To get rid of the ipod's message that says to not disconnect the ipod, > like root: > # eject /dev/sda2
What DE are you using, and what Debian branch are you using? In Sid & GNOME 2.10, when you insert a pluggable device (be it USB or firewire), it is automatically mounted and an icon appears on the desktop. > Note, if you have a windows ipod, it is /dev/sda2, for the mac ipod I > think it is /dev/sda1. This is not true. The kernel picks which is the first available "drive letter". -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. Cogito Eggo Sum
