I am running PclinuxOS-LiveCD from my CD drive on my WIN-98 machine and it works very well.

However, I can’t seem to be able to save a file permanently; as soon as I log out, the file disappear, even it was properly save under /home/guest/filename.

What is the command I should use to deposit the saved file unto somewhere on my hard drive?

Or can I add a command in a booting disk (as additional booting instructions), using rawwrite? What should the command be?

Thank you for your valuable input.

Charles..

PCLinuxOS automatically mounts any Windows partitions that it finds starting with /mnt/win_c .
If you want to save a file, try putting it in /mnt/win_c someplace.

Hello Homey;
Thank you for your valuable input.
Let's assume that I have a file called "ch.keller*sxw" in OpenOffice of 2 pages.
1) Now I want to save that file in /mnt/win_c
What do I do: should I call up the K-Terminal and how can I get into the
directory /mnt/win_c ?
And then, what is the command I should use to save the file "ch.keller.sxw"
unto "win_c" ?

2) If you would like to save that file unto a 31/2" diskette in drive A: , what is
the command I should use to mount the drive A, is it: "mnt/floppy" or "mnt/fd0"?
And what is the command I should use to save the file "ch.keller.sxw" unto the
floppy disk?

Your kind help will be very much appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Charles, Kelowna, BC.

since your on windows 98, your probably using fat32 so all should be fine.

yes, you can do this with 'K-Terminal' or any other terminal program.

say, for example, i have a file (coincidently an open office document ) called 'myDoc.sxw'. it is located in my home folder (say my user name is nadroj). so the full path to my document would be: /home/nadroj/myDoc.sxw

say i have a windows partition mounted (check your /etc/fstab file for where your windows partition is 'automatically' mounted) on /mnt/win

and i want to copy my document (myDoc.sxw) to my mounted windows partition, i would type:
your floppy drive isnt exactly 'drive A:', thats only for windows systems. your actual floppy drive on the system would be located in /dev/fd0. it would be mounted to a directory, something like /mnt/floppy (check your /etc/fstab file to see where it is mounted).

if you want to save a file to the floppy drive, just put the disk in and save something to it. (might have to type a command like 'mount /dev/fd0' to remount the floppy drive so the disks' contents are read [sorry if incorrect i actually have never used floppy drives in linux before]).
after youv inserted the disk [and if necessary, remount /dev/fd0], say your in open office, just click the save as button and browse to /mnt/floppy or wherever the floppy drive is mounted to, and you can save it. if you want to copy a file to it, it would be the same as the above 'cp' command but you specifiy a different destination, ie:

Hi ch.keller,

You might better save that file as /home/mydoc.doc if you plan to open it in Windows as MS Word doesn't read .sxw properly if I recall.

Then you can copy it to win_c like this.
In PCLinuxOS, click on the desktop icon which looks like an igloo.
Go to the /home folder which is where you hopefully saved the doc.
Go to Tools/ Open Terminal
Type the command:cp mydoc.doc /mnt/win_c

Now you can also save it onto a formatted floppy disk. I find it quite handy to use a tool called mcopy so you don't need to mount and un-mount the floppy.
Run these commands while you are still in the terminal:
fdformat /dev/fd0
mkfs.msdos /dev/fd0
mcopy mydoc.doc a:


Now your file should be saved in the Windows C:\ and on the floppy.