> I have my system booted with Knoppix 3.6 and I'm trying to 
> copy some files from /mnt/hda6 to /mnt/sda1 (a flash stick) 
> but when I do: cp -p /mnt/hda6/etc/fstab to /mnt/sda1/fstab.cp 
> the response is: /mnt/sda1 is a Read-only file system. 
> But the default permissions are -rwxrwxrwx knoppix knoppix. 

Use "mount" to see if it is rw or ro (read-write or read-only).

> So, what else needs to be done in order to copy files 
> to this flash stick. 

Maybe remount it as read-write. Maybe: "mount -o remount,rw /mnt/sda1".
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