Camera Help

[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

Did "rpm -Uvh gphoto*"  and got an already installed.

fdisk -l /dev/sda  listed nothing.


I downloaded the manuals and the USB Camera HowTo so I looks like 
I have some reading to do.

Question - USB is supported under Red Hat 9 right?




On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Rick Stevens wrote:

> 
> Make sure you did the "rpm -Uvh gphoto*" as the the root user.
> 
> 
> There's another option you could do.  99% of all digital cameras
> just use a FAT filesystem on their memory.  If you have the camera
> attached to the computer, try doing an "fdisk -l /dev/sda" and see
> if you get a listing of partitions.  If you do, try:
> 
> 	mount /dev/sdax /mnt/cdrom
> 
> (where the "x" is the partition number).  You should then be able to
> walk down the camera's file system which now appears at /mnt/cdrom:
> 
> 	ls /mnt/cdrom
> 
> For example, with my Canon camera connected, "fdisk /dev/sda" shows a
> single partiton, 1.  If I:
> 
> 	mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cdrom
> 
> Then I see the entire filesystem at:
> 
> 	/mnt/cdrom/dcim/olymp200/img00001.jpg
> 
> etc.
> 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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Brad Mugleston, KI0OT

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