no sda1 (usb pen) option

[katana]

in previous vergions of knoppix i saved my config file to a usb pen. on v5.0 dvd it only gives floppy as a option, any one know why i cant save to hard drive or usb pen anymore? help much appreciated. can still put home directory on usb pen.

[SebP10]

vim /usr/sbin/saveconfig

line 136 (or somewhere there), change /mnt/ for /medias/

Unfortunatly it have to be done each time you want to save...

[SebP10]

/media/ not /medias/ ...

sorry!

[katana]

cheers thanks very much will try

[Philip]

Hello katana :)

Did you manage to saveconfig to hd yet?
I tried to do what SebP10 suggested (thank you for the pointing :) but have not succeded :( I failed to save that file probably due to permissions.
Also, I'm not sure what I should put in /media/ . /media/sda2 perhaps? That's what tyhe machine I tried it says it's the ntfs partition where happily it is possible now to write :)
How do I edit the saveconfig file to direct the script to a writable partition like a usbpendrive or the hd?

Philip :)

[rph111745]

The /mnt /media in not the problem in V5.0.1, the saveconfig script use /media but only address /media/fd0. There is no other option in the script but the floppy. And since the advent of the 2.6 kernels I have never been able to get it to boot with floppyconfig. I am thinking of doing a search & replace and changing all intances of /fd0 to /sda1.

[Harry Kuhman]

This may or may not be related. I tried the Knoppix 5.0.1 on my notebook with a n external hard drive attached by firewire. After the DVD booted it showed two partition icons for the internal hard drive, hda1 and hda5 and also an icon for sda1, the external drive. I can open either internal partition just fine (one NTFS, one FAT32). But when I try to open sda1 I get an error message that says that Knoppix is unable to determine the partition type to mount sda1 and that none was provided. It is a NTFS partition, and when I wwent back to XP I could again use the drive just fine.