Good Evening All,

I am currently in an introduction to UNIX class and am having an issue getting started with an assignment. The assignment calls for booting to Knoppix (I am using version 5.5.1) and creating directories on external media using the command prompt rather than the GUI.

All is well until I try to create directories on my flash drive (I have tried many, all formatted FAT) (I also ensured that the drive is plugged in pre-boot)

I get an error that says that the drive is read only whenever I do a mkdir foldername

The directory is as such
Root - Media - sdb

I checked the permissions at Root/Media/ and sbd (flash drive) folders and they all suggest write access.

Any thoughts or guidance would be appreciated.

Thank You