My main workstation is awaiting its turn to move to FC4, and was running Mandriva. I now find that I cannot boot from the primary drive at all. It looks as though something desperate has happened to the MBR, where lilo lived. Checking my data backup, I find that I have missed a whole, vitally important, directory. I need to get that data to a safe place before trying anything in the way of rescue. I have got knoppix 3.2 up and can see the files. I've got a pen-drive mounted as root, but can't copy the files onto it. Trying cp /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/ /mnt/sde gets cp: omitting directory /mnt/hde7/anne/Gnucash/ I tried to do it with a gui, but 'kdesu konqueror' says that it cannot connect to the X server. I'm now desperate. How can I get those files onto my pen-drive? Anne
