Hello,

I don't know very much about computers and in particular Linux, so this might sound stupid, but I was hoping somebody would be able to help.

I normally use Windows XP, but something happened and my laptop will no longer start. A friend told me to boot from a Knoppix CD, and that's worked. I've been able to "see" my hard drive and thankfully everything is there. I want to "clone" my hard drive, in a sense, to copy all the information on my laptop hard drive onto an external hard drive.

I bought an external hard drive that supposedly works with USB 1.1 (I don't have 2.0), but I'm not sure if it is for Windows only because when I plugged it in and turned it on nothing happened. I cannot see it from Knoppix. I also can't use an installation CD because the Knoppix CD is running.

Any ideas on what to do? Thanks!

Oh, I should also add that I am unable to copy files onto my USB flash drive.

Try plugging in the drive before starting knoppix. If that is what I think your saying is after you boot knoppix you plug the drive in. I don't know how good Knoppix hotplugging is, however, if is going to be detected it's better to have the drive plugged in during the knoppix boot.

Also, I don't think the install CD would help you much in Knoppix, It's probably for windows. There are way's to boot knoppix and free your CD drive, however, I don't think it would help your sittuation much.

Once knoppix is running open a terminal, enter:

su <enter>
fdisk -l <enter>
see if it is showing your new HD.

It's probably that it can't be mounted because there is nothing on the drive yet. You'll need to partition it.

KC

Anyone know how to automatically mount a harddisk and how to make it writable ?

My harddrive is netdisk (ximeta)
and my partition is ntfs

I use debian
Here is my command line to mount my drive :

mount /dev/uba1 /mnt/disk
/etc/init.d/autofs restart



Here is what I have done to mount automatically my harddrive :
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/etc/auto.master
/mnt/removable /etc/auto.removable --timeout=10
/mnt/disk /etc/auto.win --timeout=60


/etc/auto.removable
usbdrive -fstype=vfat,uid=diwaker,gid=users,rw,umask=002 :/dev/uba1


/etc/init.d/autofs restart


But...I can't see my harddrive in /mnt/disk
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I found a script (USBMOUNT) that could do that thing for me but when I try to dpkg -i the .deb, the system throw me an error. Here is the script : http://usbmount.alioth.debian.org/


root@mythtv:~# dpkg -i usbmount_0.0.11_all.deb
Selecting previously deselected package usbmount.
(Reading database ... 54575 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking usbmount (from usbmount_0.0.11_all.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of usbmount:
usbmount depends on udev (>= 0.053-1); however:
Package udev is not installed.
dpkg: error processing usbmount (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
usbmount