Quote Originally Posted by krishna.murphy View Post
What version of Knoppix are you using?
My thought exactly. I think Ansky926 has an old Knoppix 5 CD.

I think all he wants to do is drag 'n' drop a folder (aka directory) from his hard drive to his USB drive.

That would be with this pcmanfm that folks are always talking about ? Under Knoppix 6 sure but under Knoppix 5 I think you'd use Konqueror. How hard can that be ? Command line man myself so I really don't know.

The devices have to be mounted first. Can you do that from pcmanfm ? (doubt it). It is easy enough ... open a terminal and type:

Code:
mount /media/sda2    # Ansky926's Windoze partition
mount /media/sdb1    # Ansky926's USB partition
My guess is something very similar would work under Knoppix 5 but the Windows partition probably does get mounted under /mnt/hda2. I've never known USB sticks get mounted anywhere other than /media but I never used Knoppix 5 all that much.

Knoppix 5 (and earlier) had a nice set of icons representing disk partitions on the desktop and you could (didn't have to) mount partitions by clicking on them. That's gone from Knoppix 6. I guess that UFD partitions could be mounted the same way.

Knoppix 5 (and earlier) could not mount NTFS partitions r/w so there is no point trying to make the mount read/write. It might let you do this but it has no real effect. So you can copy, but not move, files off a Windoze Ex drive. I don't quite understand why to 'recover' files from a duff disk you would move rather than copy them but perhaps it involves fewer mouse clicks. Save the planet and all that.

I can't see why the mount of the USB stick would be by default read/only but Ansky926 writes that he has unchecked the "read-only" (which I guess is an indication that he's using a wimpy UI and not a CLI).

So he writes he can't copy. The copy command under Linux is cp. Ansky926 doesn't say he using something else so I gave it a go:

Code:
@Microknoppix:~$ cp -R tmp mnt/uba1/itunes
cp: cannot create directory `mnt/uba1/itunes': No such file or directory
Note the error message says directory but Ansky926 writes that the error message he gets says folder. I am not aware of Knoppix having a special en-windows locale so I guess he's not using cp. My guess is he is using some drap-n-drop. In which case how did Ansky926 manage to leave off the leading /?

My real question is how does one help such people ? No wonder questions at this level are usually ignored by regular forum readers.

Cheers