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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, sindi keesan wrote:

> were other scsi devices).  But I think James is probably right that I
> should have done sudo mount /dev/sda1 like he suggested in the first
> place, to mount it in the right place under /mnt.   We have not checked
> the camera to see whether the files were messed up.  I should have had the
> sense to copy them off it with DOS first.  But it is the 4MB disk without
> much on it, we had that much sense at least.

That's sudo mount /mnt/sda1 (not /dev/sda1, which will give an error). 
Here's some background that may help understand why. If the camera 
presents itself to the computer as a mass-storage device, and you have it 
hooked to the computer and powered on when you boot DSL, DSL will detect 
it, create a mount point AND put an entry into /etc/fstab for you. Since 
both the device file (likely /dev/sda1) AND the mount point are specified 
in /etc/fstab, you only need to tell the system to mount the mount point 
(/mnt/sda1): it already knows where to find the device file to mount 
there.

James