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shui

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Posted: April 07 2006,04:41

Ok, I remastered DSL and I've got the ISO saved on a linux partition on a computer with no CD burner. The hard drive also has a Windows 2000 partition, which DSL tells me is a read-only file system, so I can't copy my ISO there. I have a 1 gig USB drive, which is big enough to hold the ISO, but I don't know how to mount it in DSL. It doesn't seem to be the same way I've been using to mount it in Red Hat.
So how can I either get the ISO to the Win2k partition (which would allow me to copy it to the USB drive) or copy it directly to the USB drive?

pr0f3550r

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Posted: April 07 2006,10:46

Presumably the win2k filesysytem is ntfs, that's why it's read-only.
The usb stick should be /dev/sda1 so you can mount it as vfat to mnt/sda1, I guess:
sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1

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safesys

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Posted: April 07 2006,10:53

Should be able to mount the pen drive graphically by using emelfm by navigating to the /mnt directory, selecting the device (probably sda1 as pr0f3550r indicated) and clicking the right hand mouse button and selecting mount.

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