KDE won't automount flash drive

pxumsgdxpcvjm · 07-25-2006, 07:08 PM

The title basically describes my problem. When I put my flash drive into my laptop it does nothing. It doesn't prompt what to do with the media or even show the icon. To access the flash drive I always have to run:

mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash

How can I get my flash drive to automount and display the icon on my KDE desktop? Thanks!

Michael_aust · 07-26-2006, 05:20 AM

make sure you have hal and udev installed.

and follow this guide:

http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/127

you need to change a few bits e.g. the device type and things, but this should work.

pxumsgdxpcvjm · 07-26-2006, 09:40 AM

Lol, I can't figure this out:

I got udev and hal installed already. No problem there. I just need help editting the config files.

For /etc/fstab I put

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usbflash usbfs rw,user
(this is prob wrong)

Where I'm really confused is at the autofs configuration (/etc/auto.master). I understand you have to configure /etc/auto.removable all so. Please help

JackieBrown · 07-26-2006, 09:24 PM

also pmount and usbmount. Then you don't have to worry about fstab.

IsaacKuo · 07-26-2006, 09:51 PM

Which version of Debian are you using? I never fiddled with any packages or configuration, so I only know of the out-of-box behavior. With Debian Sarge, the out-of-box behavior is to NOT do anything automatically when a USB drive is attached. With Debian Etch, the out-of-box behavior IS to automatically detect when a USB drive is attached. It works in a very user friendly way with Debian Etch and KDE.

It's the main reason why I've switched all of my desktop workstations from Sarge to Etch.