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I recently reinstalled debian testing (kernel-image-2.6.8-1-k7) on my box with the sarge installer RC2. Everything seemed fine excet cds wouldn't automount as a user, only as root. I had to add my user to the plugdev group to get automounting working.
I'd like to know how you got automount working and also how you got the plugdev group, I've done a desktop install and there is not plugdev group on my machine.
No I do not have udev installed and yes I am on a 2.6 kernel, I installed autofs which did not require udev as a dep. Also I'm reading about hal being a better way to go as gnome-volume-manager uses hal to deal with issues like this as far as I can make out hal does the same thing as what udev does, only better. Also I remember reading somewhere that udev may become deprecated (if it isn't allready).
You need udev to make hal work. hal and udev are not competitor, they work together. Udev is far from being depreciated, at least not until kernel 2.8.... The plugdev group is created by udev when you install it.
From Debian Planet:
The latest version of GNOME, 2.8, contains a new tool, gnome-volume-manager for automatically dealing with removal media devices. This relies on hal, the Hardware Abstraction Layer. In order for this to work well the user space /dev/ management tool udev is required. This works by mounting a tmpfs filesystem over /dev/ and creating device nodes as devices are detected and configured