[olug] digital camera and usb help

Jeff Hinrichs jeffh at delasco.com
Fri Nov 21 22:43:02 UTC 2003


Francis Geiger said:
> I have RH 9 and I now have a olympus d390 digital camera.  Needless to
> say digital camera tool does not show d390 as one of the options.  I
> tried several of the other camera types but all I got was camera not
> recognized.  I looked at the the How to's and they suggested to do mount
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera.  I created the camera folder in /mnt/.  when I
> ran the mount command I got /dev/sda1/ is not a valid block device.  Is
> there any chance I will be able to access the pictures on the xd picture
> card, using RH9.  Grant
> --
> Francis Geiger <hmcsret at cox.net>
While my camera uses cf memory, I use a USB cf reader.  Then I just access
the pics on the reader like any other removal media.  I bet you can get a
similiar xd reader.  Then you don't have to worry about what kind of
camera.  Makes life much simpler.

-Jeff





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