How do I get to this USB device?

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Mandag 21 august 2006 03:56, skrev tudza:
> Indeed this is what I expected to happen, but it did not, which is why I
> was asking about it.
>
> Following advice from another user I was able to mount the device, see the
> contents, and move them to my hard drive.  Unfortuneatly, there are other
> annoying problems with that.  I can not copy content to the device, nor can
> I give myself permission to do so using sudo, kdesu etc.
>
>
> What I would like to know then is, how do I get it to work such that I plug
> the device in and see it in Konqueror and/or as an icon on my Kubuntu
> desktop?  Are there packages that need installing using Adept?
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If you, after connecting the device try to run, as your user, without sudo:

$ pmount-hal sda1

Does it mount? Does it return an error message?
If that didn't work you can try:

$pmount sda1



To unmount try:

$ pumount sda1