Re: Knoppix Question

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can write to NTFS with Knoppix. You just have to mount it as a
read/write volume. By default it mounts as read-only. The writing I think is
still technically considered expiremental. But many still use it without
problems.

On 12/12/06, Chuck Lewis <chuck.lewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Argh - that is probably it. Do you think that would be the issue for the
> jump USB drive though ? I had given up on the hard drive to hard drive
> (there are two in this PC) and was trying the jump drive just now.
>
> Sounds like it is time to use Google :-)
>
> Thanks !
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Peter.Colpaert@xxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:47 AM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Knoppix Question
>
> Chuck,
>
> If the drive is NTFS, I think that it's read-only if you boot from a Linux
> CD.
>
> At least, that's how it is in my dual-boot Kubuntu / WinXP laptop.
>
> To make the NTFS partition read-write, I needed some additional packages,
> IIRC.
>
> Peter
>
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