I did drop down to the shell prompt and type 'su' to get to root. I
checked permissions at that level and they were fine yet I was unable to
copy to the USB device, nor could create a directory. I did not try to
use a floppy because most of my files were at least 2MB in size and
would not fit.
There must be some little command or option I am missing.
Bob Ackerman
Justin West wrote:
Ya, I think I got this issue resolved by just logging in as root (su),
then writing to the drive was no problem for me. May not be good
practice, but it worked.
Benjamin Story wrote:
rootme ?
Bob Ackerman wrote:
I friend asked me to help recover some files from his crashed and
non-startable Windows 98 system (and no, I haven't talked him into
Linux, yet). I am using Knoppix 3.3 and I get the system started and
here is my problem. I need to write to an USB attached device,
either a flash drive or a USB HDD (I have both). Each device mounts
properly (/mnt/sda1 and /mnt/sda2) and I can see all contents of
each device. What I need to do is to be able to write to these
drives. Now the permissions appear to be set properly and I checked
the /etc/mtab file and the USB is referenced as follows (I suspect
is default Knoppix):
usb /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw,devmode 0666 0 0
Does anybody have some suggestions? This is the first time I used
Knoppix to recover files from a crashed system and I am looking for
some success here.
Thanks,
Bob Ackerman
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