Desperate situation

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net]

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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