Still unable to transfer files

[DonS]

Knoppix 5.1.1, XP Pro SP2, Maxtor 40GB IDE drive (NTFS), and 256MB FLASHDRIVE (FAT32)
Knoppix loads with no problem. Mounted hard drive (hda1) readable only, and flashdrive (sdb1) both readable AND writeable.
Used Konquror to access files with no problem. Tried drag & drop, copy & paste, and "copy to" with no success.
Kepp getting message, "Cound not write to /media/sdb1/[filename]"

Any & all suggestions greatly appreciated

[hal8000]

Right click over your memory drive sdb1, change filesystem mode to read and write (cant remember exact wording).
You can then safely drag and drop to copy files.

WARNING: Remember to right click and safely unmount or remove the memory stick before unplugging it or simply shut knoppix down.
A lot of data is cached on a linux filesystem, so if you just remove memory sticks, you will either lose data or sorrupt it.

[DonS]

Thanks for your repsonse. I did right-click on the FlashDrive icon (sdb1) and made the drive readable and writeable)
I also booted Knoppix on my wife's computer [xp Home, WD 40GB IDE harddrive (FAT32), same FlashDrive (FAT32).
Mounted both drives and again made the flashdrive readable and writeable. Was unable to transfer files on her computer.

Makes me think I am doing something basically wrong. While this is still new (Knoppix/Linux) to me, I've spent hours reading
posts and can't seem to find what it is I'm doing wring.

Incidentally, I did make the mistake of shutting down Knoppix without first unmounting the drives. But I noticed that in the
shutdown process Knoppix unmounted the drives before exiting the program and shutting down the computer. So....hopefullly
I didn't do any damage or corrupt any files.

Thanks again for replying.

[rusty]

Could you post the output of:

mount

, from a shell once the drive has been made writable.

Also, if you plug the USB drive in after you boot up , do you have the same problem?

What is the brand of the flash drive?

[Harry Kuhman]

... But I noticed that in the shutdown process Knoppix unmounted the drives before exiting the program and shutting down the computer. So....hopefullly I didn't do any damage....

yea, As long as the drive is attache when Linux shuts down, the partition(s) are unmounted properly. the problem comes in when a new user unplugs a flash drive without doing an unmount or a shutdown. This can corrupt the file system.

Answering Rusty's question about the make and model of the device may help. It isn't a flash drive with some sort of Windows-only psudo-security feature, is it? And if it's a flash drive with a write enable switch, that switch is permitting writing to the device and not in the read-only position, right?

[DonS]

Have tried two flashdrives: (1) 512MB Sandisk Cruzer and, (2) 1GB Memorex Traveldrive....neither of which appear to have any kind of "write enable switch". I've used both to copy files from XP with no problem.
Both are recognized by Knoppix, but with a rather strange anomaly.......I get 2 icons for the flash drive. One is an icon of a flashdrive which doesn't contain the drive's files, and the other icon looks like a harddrive, which when clicked on lists all the files on the flashdrive. Doesn't matter though....I mount both, make them writeable, and still can't copy files from the harddrive to either. Keep getting the same message: "Cound not write to /media/sdb1/[filename]"

This probably sounds stupid, but in Knoppix what shell do I use to post the results of "Code:" and "Mount". I'm an old Dos 3.3 user accustomed to command lines, but Knoppix still has me baffled. I haven't tried plugging the USB drive in after I've booted into Knoppix, as I was told to attach the drive before booting up so Knoppix would recognize it.

Where to go from here?

[rusty]

A shell is a terminal, like the DOS prompt. You can open one for root by: K->Knoppix->Root Shell and type: mount, at the prompt.

A shell for the user knoppix can be opened by clicking on the monitor icon with the black screen on the task bar.

Either one will do.

[DonS]

I can't believe it was this simple, but that's what it usually comes down to.
After mounting the harddrive and flashdrive, I right-clicked on the flashdrive and rather than
clicking on Properties/Permissions/Device, I simply clicked on "Change read/write mode"
A dialog box then popped up asking if I really wanted to change the partition to be writable.
I clicked on yes, and Waalaa!!! Was able to drag & drop files from the harddrive to the flashdrive
with no problem.

BTW, I finally realized that the other harddrive icon I was seeing was an external harddrive connected
by firewire.

Should anyone be interested, I did open a shell and typed mount, then mode on the command line.
Received the following results:

Mount
/dev/root on / type ext2 (rw)
/ramdisk on /ramdisk type tmpfs (rw,size=411792k,mode=755)
/UNIONFS on /UNIONFS type aufs (rw,br:/ramdisk:/KNOPPIX)
/dev/hdc on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
/dev/cloop on /KNOPPIX type iso9660 (ro)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw,devmode=0666)
/dev/pts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /media/hda1 type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type fuseblk (ro,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=100 0,gid=1000)


Code
bash: code: command not found

I can't interpret it, so it doesn't mean much to me.

Anyway, I greatly appreciate all the help you guys provided. Thanks again.

[Babysittah]

Right click over your memory drive sdb1, change filesystem mode to read and write (cant remember exact wording).
You can then safely drag and drop to copy files.

WARNING: Remember to right click and safely unmount or remove the memory stick before unplugging it or simply shut knoppix down.
A lot of data is cached on a linux filesystem, so if you just remove memory sticks, you will either lose data or sorrupt it.

Thats right homie, completely agree widdit!