<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Assumptions</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.76b+ "><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="USB Digital Camera HOWTO" HREF="index.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="Reading Material" HREF="x76.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Preliminary Setup" HREF="c161.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="chapter" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >USB Digital Camera HOWTO</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x76.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" ></TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="c161.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="chapter" ><H1 ><A NAME="AEN141">Chapter 2. Assumptions</H1 ><P >My system is a Athlon 900 with a 40 gig hard drive. I have no SCSI or USB devices. My kernel was compiled without any of the SCSI or USB drivers. I compiled the SCSI and USB drivers as modules. I have version 2.4.8_26mdk of the Linux kernel with Mandrake 8.1. Since we are working on the kernel level, this document should be applicable to any distro.</P ><P >I also make the following assumptions in this document:</P ><P ></P ><UL ><LI ><P >You do not have any SCSI or USB modules loaded or mounted.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >You are the superuser and have the root password.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >The word camera can refer to a device of type camera, card reader, any USB mass storage device.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >The mount point <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"camera"</SPAN >, <TT CLASS="filename" >/mnt/camera</TT >, does not refer to a device in the aforementioned context. Look in the directory <TT CLASS="filename" >/mnt</TT > and you will probably see cdrom, disk, floppy, and maybe several others device names. In mine, you will see these plus <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"camera"</SPAN >. These are directories, and they are mount points.</P ></LI ><LI ><P >The symbol <SPAN CLASS="QUOTE" >"[bash]$"</SPAN > means the command line prompt. Do not type it when you are entering a command. It is where you type the command line to give user input to the computer.</P ></LI ></UL ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x76.html" ACCESSKEY="P" >Prev</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="index.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c161.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >Reading Material</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Preliminary Setup</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
