Linux Now Detects Gpdrive As A Usb Key!

[damaki]

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!

 

[ratx]

wow thats great news... I'll try it out later on with a stock debian unstable 2.6.10-1

 

[aapje89]

nice

 

[Talyz]

My only problem when using external drives in Linux (Mandrake 10.1) is my normal user can't access drives, but root can...

Really nice, tought, as it doesn't work in Windows 2000...


//Talyz Prower

 

[angrypants]

cool I never even thought to test it but I'll give it a shot later.

 

[damaki]

My only problem when using external drives in Linux (Mandrake 10.1) is my normal user can't access drives, but root can...

Really nice, tought, as it doesn't work in Windows 2000...


//Talyz Prower

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If you have no SCSI peripherals you should create a /mnt/usb directory then put that in /etc/fstab

/dev/sda1               /mnt/usb        vfat           noauto,gid=85,rw,umask=007,fmask=007,dmask=007,users 0  0

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 :

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 :

/dev/sda1               /mnt/usb        subfs        fs=vfat,gid=85,rw,umask=007,fmask=007,dmask=007  0  0

 

[Julius]

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

 

[Digitalrat]

too bad Mandrake 10.1 doesn't include the .10 kernel,

I think you can update it easily with urpmi.

Just update the mirrors: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

If I remember it right you can see all available kernels if you type "urpmi -y kernel" then and install it with "urpmi kernel-xx"...

Not sure so, I changed to Aurox...

 

[Julius]

too bad Mandrake 10.1 doesn't include the .10 kernel,

I think you can update it easily with urpmi.

Just update the mirrors: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/

If I remember it right you can see all available kernels if you type "urpmi -y kernel" then and install it with "urpmi kernel-xx"...

Not sure so, I changed to Aurox...

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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.