These scripts work for me on Fedora Core 2 and Redhat 9. Several
people have reported that they can be made to function on many other
Linux distributions with minor configuration changes and some
editing. To get them to work on your system you may need knowledge of
Linux and shell scripting. If the scripts don't work out of the box,
you should look for errors in /var/log/messages (or where ever your
system log is kept). If you are not comfortable with reading logs and
editing scripts - perhaps these scripts aren't for you.

The latest info on usb-mount can be found at

  http://users.actrix.co.nz/michael/usbmount.html

You can only use this utility if you've read and accepted the terms of
the license contained in the file COPYING.LIB that can be found in the
same folder as this README file.

Some Background Info:

Hotplug is the core package that detects devices being inserted and
removed (joysticks, cameras, anything).  It invokes scripts that
insert the right driver modules and then calls userspace scripts to do
anything else - such as usb-mount.

Sg_map gives us a way to find out what scsi devices are valid disk
devices - usb storage pretends to be scsi.

Disktype gives us a way to tell what a partition is without having to
mount it - once we know what kind of partition it is we can make some
sensible judgements about how to mount it - eg if it's a NTFS file
system we might need different mount options than for a native Linux
partition.

