Thanks Jeremy.  That worked. 

Curious, though, as I had been able to copy files yesterday 
using Knoppix 3.3, so before receiving your message, I rebooted 
with 3.3 and it worked fine, whereas Knoppix 3.6 did not allow 
the writing without entering the command you suggested. 

Joe


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From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net>
Subject: Re: how to copy files from knoppix /mnt/hda# to /mnt/sda1 ?

> > 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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