On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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/
<<snip>>
I'm sure somebody will respond more completely, but as I recall Knoppix,
all drives are first mounted r/o. You need to remount them r/w before
attempting a copy operation to them. It is also possible that you need to
sudo also, I'm not sure.
Hope this helps, or somebody who knows better steps in.
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