Thank you for taking the time to respond. You were right - I hadn't installed the latest version of submount. I download and installed it. Thanks for the tip. submount-0.9.tar.gz seems more oriented towards reading CD's and floppies but it definitely gives me something to work on and to research. My goal is to be able to strip down my ***fat*** SuSE kernel while at the same time keeping my usb key "plug and play" under a normal "user". Easier to say than to do. BWT, submount exists on the SuSE 9.2 CDs as km_submount - Automounting of Removable Media Submount is a system for automatically mounting and unmounting removable media drives, like CD-ROMs and floppy disk drives. Once installed, it allows removable media drives to be accessed as if they were permanently mounted. One last note. After installing submount-0.9.tar.gz I still couldn't write to my usb key under my newly compiled kernel. I added this to /etc/fstab as a start. It is not perfect but it appears to be a workable solution. /dev/sda1 /usb vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Thanks for your help again. Regards, James On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 07:56 +0000, John Lamb wrote:
James PEARSON wrote:
Hello All,
I am having a problem to the get the usb hotpluging to work once I compile the kernel.
Did you forget to recompile the hotplug module?
The process is straightforward. Download latest version of submount from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=81174 then (with the new kernel running) $ tar zxvf submount-0.9.tar.gz $ cd submount-0.9/subfs-0.9 $ make $ su # make install
-- JDL