USB Flash drive on KDE 3.3

[Guest]

im new to linux and just installed sarge with kernel 2.6.8. if i go into gnome and put my USB flash drive in, it pops up on my desktop and opens it up, everything is fine. if i go into KDE and do it, nothing happens. i went into the devices, but nothing is listed there....just the partitions. i tried to search everywhere within KDE, but can't find it. any ideas, or am i just blind.

[phaeton]

You can have gnome-volume-manager load when kde starts by linking it in the kde autostart directory. That will detect when then devices are plugged in like in gnome. I honestly didn't care for the way it worked though (probably configuration error on my end). I just added a line to the /etc/fstab file for the device. This worked for me:

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/dev/sda1	/media/flash 	vfat	rw,user,noauto	0 	0

You have to create the directory for it to mount in (I used /media/flash) and the dev may not be sda1 on your system depending on what other devices you have.

[pigah]

There is also the package usbmount. It is in unstable and testing, but I don't know if it is in stable, but it automatically mounts usb drives through hotplug (i think).

[maagimies]

In my previous distro (gentoo) I used IvMan, worked perfectly. Better than usbmount in that sense that it changed the icon of the usb-stick to other than the standard hard-drive icon. I did found ivman in some repositories but I got to hell-of-a-dependency-problems, and had to spend much time fixing everything. Now I have to settle with usbmount