I have tried getting a zip disk mounted as the knoppix user all day and get all kinds of errors.

I thought that this series of instructions would work:

sudo mkdir /mnt/zip
sudo mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip

It did, sort of. I can access the zip disk (formatted as FAT) as the root user but not as the knoppix user. Again... I CAN see it as root. I CAN'T see it as knoppix. This makes it hard for the problem below.

What gives?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I am working up instructions and a training class for non-linux/unix techs to use knoppix for file system recovery and general support friendliness.

I use knoppix to grab windows network drivers from websites all the time. If the system has a FAT or FAT32 filesystem, I have no problems, I can just download the files, reboot and I have them in windows. NTFS makes it harder. For now, I stuff them (using samba) on a network shared folder. I would like to just be able to download them to a mounted zip disk as the knoppix user.

Therein is my problem.

I need to get over this hurdle before i can continue.

Thanks in advance.