[vox-tech] Jumpdrive on Knoppix

[Richard Harke]

Yes, it is USB. I used vfat as the type when I mounted and that
worked well. The main problem was that I couldn't do a chown
on it. If I get something that works, I could modify the iso image
before burning another CD.

Richard

On Sunday 26 September 2004 20:29, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Is this "jumpdrive" some usb device in some FAT format?  If so, there
> are ways to do what you want, but none of them would be remembered after
> rebooting Knoppix.
>
> Jonathan
>
> Richard Harke wrote:
> > I spent some time today helping my wife with Knoppix.
> > She has a lot of experience with Windows but tends
> > to be baffled by command line programs. She would like
> > to be able to use the jumpdrive under knoppix leaving
> > the hard drive out of the picture (or at least remaining
> > read-only) When we plugged in the jump drive, it was
> > recognized, the drivers were loaded and a drive assigned
> > (/dev/sda1) However it wasn't mounted. After mounting,
> > it was still a problem because it belonged to root. I tried
> > to do a chown (as root) but kept getting operation not
> > permitted messages. The best I was able to do was copy
> > files, as root, between the jumpdrive and /home/knoppix
> > So, the question is, how can I change the ownership?
> > And then how can I have this happen automatically
> > when I plug in the jumpdrive?
> > Ideally, when I plug it in, it would be mounted to a
> > sub-directory of /home/knoppix with the permissions
> > set for the user knoppix
> >
> > Richard Harke
> >
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