usb saves after boot usb made

[Guest jimjan]

having a great yet new time with mcnlive on usb

 

noted that could not use boot usb to save files when in live mode [booted from it]

 

just noticed that while in knoppix i dont seem to be able to save files on this thumb??

[went through steps to mount and make writeable]

 

does that mean once your usb is set as bootalbe usb drive that you can no longer add files to it? :mellow:

 

thanks

j

[chris:b]

If you only have one partition on the boot usb key you need to be root to save normal files.

menu -> mcnlive-> filemanager su

 

--> under /mnt you can find the partition

 

For a second partition on the usb stick you can write as normal user

 

https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=42195

Edited July 6, 2007 by chris:b

[chris:b]

I don't understand what you mean with knoppix. and what problem knoppix has.

 

you can use the usb stick as a normal writable drive when you don't use it as bootable medium.

 

edit: MCNLive does not change the partitions on the usb stick or the geometry. the stick can be used (in non-livemode) in all OS which can handle normal mass storage devices, Linux, OS X, MS Windows, BSD etc.

 

Q & A about live usb /mcnlive:

 

www.mcnlive.org/usblive.htm.

[Guest jimjan]

I don't understand what you mean with knoppix. and what problem knoppix has.

 

you can use the usb stick as a normal writable drive when you don't use it as bootable medium.

 

what i meant was that when i tried to use the usb with another live cd distro it did not seem to work there either; perhaps your clarification in first reply will resolve my issue or maybe i just did something wrong; perhaps i was impatient but i erased it all and will start over as you describe above

 

will try and follow up with you

 

thanks a bunch for timely replies

jj