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Billsrock61
01-20-2005, 07:23 PM
How do u copy files from the livecd over to a partitioned harddrive. I want to copy a .wav file from the live cd to my partitioned harddrive so i can use it when im using linux from harddrive Thanks!!

Markus
01-20-2005, 08:21 PM
You just mount the partition rw and copy it over:
sudo mount /mnt/something
cp file/from/somewhere /mnt/hd??/path/filename

If the partition is already mounted:
sudo mount /mnt/hd?? -o remount,rw

If it's not in fstab you can include device and filesystem:
sudo mount /dev/hd?? /mnt/hd?? -t ext3