Compact flash - getting images from cameras

[Rascal01]

I'm starting to shop for digital cameras, and I see many of the cameras use "compact flash". Can I easily download off of a compact flash memory? Is this easy to setup?

The camera I'm currently looking at is not listed on the supported list for 'gphoto', so I'm wondering, for assurance, the any generic "compact flash" could be used with Linux.

Thanks.

[The Whizzard]

Many digital cameras have a USB port to connect to PCs. To use this in Linux, you'll need USB support in your kernel. To access the contents of the flash card, you'd mount it the same way as a SCSI device with the vfat(FAT32/FAT16) file system.
mkdir /mnt/camera #this is where the flash card will be mounted and only needs to be done once.
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera #you might have to use /dev/sdb1.

After you figure out which device(sda1 or sdb1) to use, unmount it and make an entry in your /etc/fstab for it.

[ 02 January 2002: Message edited by: The Whizzard ]