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Mounting a SD drive

Asked by Chad Turman

I have an Eee PC touch that accepts SD cards. I can see the card in the Computer File Browser window. When I try to open the drive I get "Unable to mount location" "failed to execute child process gnomemount (no such directory)". What have I missed?

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Adnan Quaium (adnan.quaium) said : 		#1

You need to install the program "Gnome Mount". For installing this program go to System => Administration => Synaptic Package Manager and then search for gnome-mount. After finding gnome-mount, install it.

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applecache(Nolan King) (nolanking) said : 		#2

Hello

You could try by bringing up a terminal and typing sudo nautilus after which you can navigate to the SD card and right-click in the window and select properties. After which you can select permissions and change the owner and group and others sections to your login name.

Gnome-mount i think is already installed by default in all ubuntu distros.

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A. Denton (aquina) said : 		#3

You can also mount it "by hand" from a shell:

1] Open a terminal form your Applications menue (usually "Terminal", "Xterm" or "KDE Console").
2] Then type "mkdir /media/sdcard0"
3] Enter "mount /dev/tfa0 /media/sdcard0".*

* In case it's not /dev/fta0 try this (to get the SD card to mount):

1] Open a terminal form your Applications menue (usually "Terminal", "Xterm" or "KDE Console").
2] Enter "sudo modprobe tifm_core" and "sudo modprobe tifm_sd" and the SD card shows up!
3] Run "sudo nano -w /etc/modules" and add "tifm_core" and "tifm_sd" to the file to have them load at boot. :-)

Good Luck, Chad!

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Chad Turman (cturman) said : 		#4

I believe that I know what the issues is now. These are corporate imaged laptops that I dont have admin rights to. When I opened up a terminal window and entered sudo nautilus, it asked for a password. thanks for the help everyone. This is my first use of an OS beside windows and I'm sure I'll have more questions

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brad schaefbauer (brad-schaefbauer) said : 		#5

when it asks for a password, enter your personal login password. This OS uses sudo to pass elevated privileges to users, rather than logging in as root (administrator)