Knoppix Mount Question
Right, basically the situation is I have an NF7 motherboard, I dont have the driver disk for it though.
Earlier I was installing WindowsXP Professional, worked fine, until I got into the desktop enviroment, where I realised that my network interface was part of my motherboard, and not having the driver disk, I couldnt get online to install updates. So I put Knoppix in the CD drive, and downloaded the Motherboard Drivers to the Knoppix Desktop. What I want to do now is move those files to a Partition on my second hard drive (hdb) that I just created in QtParted (Fat32, so I can read it from Windows). The PROBLEm is that when I try to Copy and Paste the driver pack across it tells me I cannot write to /mnt/hdb1*filename*. WHY IS IT TELLING ME THIS? And how do I rectify the situation? Word your awnsers as if your talking to a 3 year old, its late and I'm not very good with Linux yet. Thanks to anyone who can give a quick awnser! |
Argh? No One? :p
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Open a console and issue
mount with no arguments. It will show you what is mounted and where. From there you might be able to figure whether your partition is mounted read-only or not. you can post here the output of mount, so we can have a look at it, also. Good luck. |
The Output:
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw) /dev/cdrom on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro) /dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro) /ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=407076k) usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666) automount(pid412) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=412,minproto=2,maxproto=4) /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev) So it is actually mounted. I dont know what (ro,nosuid,nodev) means though. |
Re: Knoppix Mount Question
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...a little paitience...15 minutes are not much...
you should check, if the drive you are trying to copy the file to is mounted read/write... Knoppix by default mounts all drives it recognizes - but in read-only mode (as I remember) - as a security issue the drive-icons on your desktop have a menu accessible with right-click - there you can change the mode the drive is mounted - after you changed anything you will need to unmount it and mount it again...to make the change effective I cannot be more specific - it has been a while since I used it and I'm not using KDE (the graphical Desktop environment you are in when using Knoppix) you can do it on command-line in a terminal too - but you will need to get root for this to work... it is done by typing "su" then you can unmount and mount drives how and where you want |
/dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev)
its mounted read only. You have to change it to read-write following happytux. then it will look like this: /dev/hdb1 on /mnt/hdb1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev) |
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