As many Linux users surely know, there have been issues for a long time with GPdrive and Linux OS. But I recently discovered, that with the 2.6.10 kernel and all USB mass storage drivers enabled at compilation time, it just works!
The gid parameter in the line should be set to the number of the "usb" group or any other unix group that you belong to and that has the right accesses on usb peripherals. You can find this number with :
Code:
grep usb /etc/fstab
It should be the only number in the displayed line.
Yeah, the fstab line could be simpler but it is made to be secure.
By the way, don't forget to add yourself to the "usb" group if you're not already in it. You can verify with the "groups" command
With that line, you can mount the drive yourself, while not being root. If you don't want to go trough the pain of mounting/unmounting it yourself, like me (lazyness rocks) you can install submount, it's a kernel module. Then your fstab line should be :
wow, great news.... too bad Mandrake 10.1 doesn't include the .10 kernel, and I am too stupid to update it manually (still a bit of a Linux n00b)... but I am planning to convert to Unbuntu Linux soon anyway (when the new release comes out.... much better Gnome support than Mandrake... ).... and then I can finally use gpdrive on Linux
Naaa, I guessed so already, but the new kernel will be probably only availabe as a MDK cooker version, and I don't really want to use it on my community edition, since it might break all sort of programms and stuff.... but I can wait... so far the textbased linux link software did the job so far, so it will do it's job a few more weeks also
Anyways thanks for the hint.
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