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Posted: Oct. 04 2003,16:37 QUOTE

Would you please consider adding the following to the distro.

insmod usb-storage

The module is already there, just add the command in the boot up sequence.

That way everyone could mount their pen drives etc.

A great big plus would be to change the /etc/fstab with something like:

/dev/sda /mnt/auto/usb auto user,noauto,exec,umask-000 0 0
mkdir /mnt/auto/usb
ln -s /mnt/auto/usb /mnt/usb

The above mods adds the usb device to the mount.app utility, which would make it a dream for a newbie to mount their usb devices.

Plus that way I don't have to remaster to get these things that I find so useful. Thanks
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Posted: Oct. 05 2003,07:26 QUOTE

Not all people might want to waste memory with an unused module... so maybe instead of modprobing ....

/etc/modules.conf could have a line like (untest):
  alias char-major-8 usb-storage
or
 alias /dev/sda usb-storage

so that the module will autoload when 1st needed.

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Posted: Oct. 10 2003,05:37 QUOTE

actually what works (tested!)

/etc/modules.conf

alias block-major-8 usb-storage

Then after making the change:

depmod -a

Then remaster the cd.

Then the module usb-storage will be loaded into memory only upon the mount command

mount -t vfat /dev/sda /mnt/test
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