Kevin Brown wrote: > Mark Phillips wrote:
>
>> I am trying to use a Knoppix CD to copy an image of a partition to an
>> external storage device. The Knoppix CD boots without any errors and
>> it recognizes both the external (firewire) and internal drives. I can
>> mount the drives and read them. However, I cannot write to either
>> drive. I just get an error that says I cannot write to the drive. Both
>> drives are formatted for Widows (the internal drive is for Win2K). The
>> Knoppix CD reads the permissions rwx for everyone, and the user and
>> group are knoppix. Since I have not changed the settings for the
>> Knoppic CD, I assume I am user knoppix.
>>
>> 1. What do I need to do to be able to write to the drives?
The drives should be Fat32 and you should have permission to write to
the drive (that is the mount points permisions allow it (ls -l
/mntpoint) and the drive is mounted rw ("mount" will say how a partition
is mounted))
>> 2. Can I mess up the drives if I write to them from Knoppix since they
>> were formatted from Windows?
If you try to write to an NTFS partition you may be out of luck. But I
have had luck using partimage to back up and restore (from and to) an
NTFS partition. YMMV. Be lucky.
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