1. See
https://www.redhat.com/archives/redh.../msg02240.html . As per the article, in a console window, try
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera (or whatever is in mnt)
If you are having a problem, try using a different USB port on your computer. Take a look at your /var/log/messages file, or the output of 'dmesg | more' using your TAB key, in a console terminal, and look for any references for USB storage device. Do you have any other SCSI devices on your system? What is the exact error message you get when trying to 'mount' sda1?
2.
http://media-server.amazon.com/media...L000012166.pdf see page 3, if you buy a 'usb card reader', you can take the SMC memory card out of the camera and then put it into the 'usb card reader', and presto, you got your pictures.