writing to floppies, Fat partitions, and USB drives

[markpreston]

# Back up data to USB device.
From a terminal window, as user knoppix, type in the following commands, pressing <enter> after each line.

su
modprobe usb-storage
mkdir /mnt/usbstore
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstore
lyxpage > /mnt/usbstore/lyxpage
umount /mnt/usbstore


# Back up data to floppy disk
From a terminal window, as user knoppix, type in the following commands, pressing <enter> after each line.

su
mount /mnt/floppy
lyxpage > /mnt/floppy/lyxpage
umount /mnt/floppy

These commands should work for Knoppix 3.1. You may need to umount the devices first if they are mounted, but they are usually unmounted when Knoppix first boots up.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Mark Preston