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[curchunflo]

Hi there! I´m tryn to find the way to mount a pendrive and a floppy disk with a normal user (not root). I´ve checked the device mount in vasm and i have pendrive and floppy in the list. When i init root session i can open the pendrive by clicking on the pendrive icon in icewm+desk but in a normal user sesion i cant. In the floppy case i cant open it in anyway... so... what must i do for automatic mounting at init??? Thankyou very much, i´ve searched in the forum, but nothing seems to adjust (and my english -as you can see- sucks!!! hehehe) a hug,

curchunflo

[rbistolfi]

You could try throug VASM, with the pendrive plugged. I am not at my box rigth now, but there is an option to mount a device at startup, yours should look like /dev/sd*. Then you need to select the mountpoint, could be something like /mnt/pendrive. BTW, my pendrive is automounted nicely with vl-hot, a desktop icon appears (thanks, joe  . You could try to upgrade your vl-hot package.

[Joe1962]

IIRC, 5.1 Standard still used the old usbmount, vl-hot started out in 5.1 SOHO, but working from hotplug, not from udev.

[curchunflo]

Ooops! it seems we have a problem! I need some way to mount devices in a easy way. I´ve installed VL in a public access machine... i´m trying to migrate that machine from window$ to linux, so if i cant mount easily a pendrive or a floppy disc the people wont use VL!! I cant update cause that pc has only 128 ram. How can i make a desktop icon on icewm for mounting usb? Also its rare that if i init root sesion i can use the icon in the desktop for open the pendrive (not the floppy, i cant do that in with any user) but it isnt possible with a normal user (i recieve an alert with a text like "you have not permision" or something like that). When i start VL i can see the hotplug failed alert... well... any suggestions??? thankyou again!

[Joe1962]

FWIW, 5.8 Standard works great on 128 MB RAM.

[curchunflo]

thanks! i´ll try it this week. I´m downloading VL 5.8 std now. I had read somewhere that 5.1 was for 128 ram and 5.8 needs 256 at least... can somebody confirm it? Than you!

curchunflo

[easuter]

thanks! i´ll try it this week. I´m downloading VL 5.8 std now. I had read somewhere that 5.1 was for 128 ram and 5.8 needs 256 at least... can somebody confirm it? Than you!

curchunflo

In VL 5.8 using Xfce 4.4, while idle the memory consumption is roughly 45MB. Thats a pretty safe margin!
On my laptop for example (also only has 128mb ram), I have fluxbox installed and use it instead of Xfce, and then the memory usage while idle is more or less 22MB!

As long as you don't intend on using heavy apps like OpenOffice and 3d games, the you should be fine with 128mb of ram

[curchunflo]

thank you! i´ll try it. BTW, there is some way to swich from 5.1 to 5.8 like an actualization/upgrade/update? or i have to format and reinstall???

[easuter]

thank you! i´ll try it. BTW, there is some way to swich from 5.1 to 5.8 like an actualization/upgrade/update? or i have to format and reinstall???

Not really...there are some major differences between VL 5.1 and VL 5.8, the best would be to do a clean installation.

[rbistolfi]

You can keep your /home if you have it in a separated partition.

[Joe1962]

Dang! I remembered a FAQ on the old Forum and went looking for it. If you are still interested in getting this working in 5.1 and are willing to "get your hands dirty", have a read through this:
http://www.vectorlinux.com/forum1/index.php?topic=7604.0


EDIT: Just checked and my website redirection is down, so here is the direct URL:
http://jjrweb.byethost.com/vl/dev/usb-mount/0.95/

EDIT2: Redirect is back up, I rather think it was a glitch in my connection, as a few other sites were giving me problems.

[curchunflo]

thankyou both, i´ll try keeping 5.1 first, and if i cant... welcome 5.8! a hug,

curchunflo

[lagagnon]

...BTW, there is some way to swich from 5.1 to 5.8 like an actualization/upgrade/update? or i have to format and reinstall???

Sorry, you will have to reinstall - too many changes to enable any sort of upgrade to be anywhere's near stable. You can keep your home partition though and not reformat it during install so you won't loose any of that...