[Gllug] cam phone to communicate w pc via usb cable

[Xander D Harkness]

Will Napier wrote:

> Hi, I am non-technical and think I may have bitten off rather more 
> than I  can chew. I have just bought a usb data cable for my Samsung 
> E700 mobile  phone, and I want to transfer photos.

If the phone presents as a usb mass storage device you should see a 
listing with fdisk -l when it is plugged in.

If you see something like this:

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 36.4 GB, 36415464448 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 70559 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         203      102280+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2             204       70559    35459424   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hde: 1077 MB, 1077608448 bytes
64 heads, 63 sectors/track, 522 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4032 * 512 = 2064384 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         521     1050304+   6  FAT16

/dev/hda is your main drive, /dev/sda may be the camera, in which case 
you should be able to mount the partition using:

mkdir /mnt/phone
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/phone

You can also have a prod with lsusb to see if the system can see it at all.

Kind regards
Xander

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