Do i just type "mount -t vfat /dev/sda1/ /mnt/digitalcamera" in the terminal?

first check that the /dev/sda1 partition actualy exists.
then check that the /mnt/digitalcamera folder exists.
then you can try that command as root. Normally it will not work if you try it as normal user.
What you should do is add it to your /etc/fstab
ad this line
/dev/sda1 /mnt/digitalcamera vfat user,noauto,umask=0 0 0
and check that the /mnt/digitalcamera dir exists now you should be able to mount
it as a user with the "mount /mnt/digitalcamera" command

Hey guys!
I am a newbie to linux and to forums in general so forgive me if my posting is not in the right place or not in the right format.
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I have a Fujitsu Lifebook C series laptop running FC3. i've been trying to get the pictures off my Panasonic camera (DMC-LC33) and unsuccessfuly.

Tech Info
Kernel: 2.6.11-1.27_FC3

The camera when plugged into the usb is recongnized by the kernel as far as I can tell. it registers as a fake scsi /dev/sda1. When I try to mount it , this is what I get:

[root@localhost xxxxx]# mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /media/camera
mount: No medium found

Thanks in advance

GNOME has a nice digital camera tool that will find your camera and will make it easy to import pictures off your camera. (I used it on my RH9 installation). Although, my current RH9 installation is on my server and I do not have the camera tool installed on anyother of my computers now, so I don't no the name of it, but if you look through the RPM list it should exsit, even though you are using FC, cause most of the RPM's are the same.

I think the tool you are talking about is called gPhoto and I tried that. My camera is not listed in that program's database file. When I run that application I get a little pop-up window with no camera found message on top of the camera icon. I tried picking another camera model (closest to the one I have, but no success).

Error message:
An error occurred in the io-library ('Bad parameters'):
Could not find USB device (vendor 0x4da, product 0x2374).
Make sure this device is connected to the computer.

Did you search google for a linux app or driver especially for your camera, or series of cameras?

There is a KDE pgm called digikam which I installed and works great. Don't know if your camera is in it's database.

Thnaks very much you guys. I searched for a driver but didn't find anything of use. As far as the other application goes, my camera, once again is not there.
The strangest thing is I booted my laptop with knoppix 3.7 and I could mount the camera easily. This is not a solution but I think I am just going to try SUSE. Some people tell me it is better suited for laptops.

Thanks very much Tigran

I am a Slackware 12 user... I installed digikam but my camera isn't in database ( Canon Powershot A450 ) so this program didn't work for me. When I type lsusb that's the console answer: Bus 3 Device 2: ID 04a9:3155 Canon, Inc. Any idea?

Thanks a lot for wasting your time with me!

There is your camera in list http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
So your have to update gphoto2 and libgphoto2 and possibly switch your camera to ptp mode.

Try to use command gphoto2 instead of digicam.

i upgraded gphoto 2 and libgphoto 2 so I found my camera with ptp mode... but still don't work. I don't know why so the problem still exist.

I've been having the same problem with Debian Sid. Camera is recognized as ptp but that is it. Its not the camera (fuji finepix) - PclinuxOS has no problem accessing the pictures.