Saving Files to floppy disk

[Harry Kuhman]

I want to copy some files - while running Knoppix - to a floopy disk. What command(s) should I use? In the Linux site tell us to do the following:

mount -t vfat ext2 dev/fd0/floppy
cp file_to_copy /floppy

In Knoppix it doesn't work ( the floppy path is probably different ).

Does anyone knows how to do this?

Do you see a floppy drive icon in the GUI? If so you should be able to mount the drive just by clicking on it. This will also give you the name. You may have to remount it with a shell command for write access though.

In fact, we might extend the question: can I save the files I want to the hard drive?

The answer to this is Absolutely..........
maybe
here's the thing: Linux is known to have issues writing to NTFS partitions. So if you have only NTFS partitions on the hard drive, do not write to them, unless you really don't care about the data or your windows install.

However, if you have FAT or other partitions on your hard drive, yes, you can write to them just fine.

I use Knoppix with a notebook that came with XP and one 30 gig NTFS partition. First thing I did was shrink the C partition down to 10 gig and assign the rest to a FAT partition. I can read either partition with Knoppix, but I only write to the FAT partition.

And Knoppix will always play safe and default to opening your partitions read-only (remember, it's original intention is to be a Live CD that the novice can put in a computer, boot into Linux, and not hurt anything). So you need to remount the FAT partition as read-write before you can write to the drive. But this is extremely simple, a few minutes with the man pages and I was compiling downloaded source files onto my D drive just fine (was harder figuring out paths to make them run than to compile them to disk).