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Knoppix Live cd troubles

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AmbientFiction

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Ok so its been a few years since I have spent much time in the land of *Nix. So here is my problem.

I'm running knoppix I forget distro # live from cd but I need to access C:\sp\i386 so I can pull Windows XP SP2 off my NTFS partition for the drivers I need to run my wireless card. There is a program called Captive Install Acquire now it will do what I need it to however it locks up every time I tell it to search the drive. Now I know the path to the drive which would be /dev/hdc1#libntfs:/ but getting it to access past that point isn't working. Also being its a live cd I just can't pop XP pro into drive and pull off SP2 from the cd.

Now I could partition the hd and run a dual boot but was not trying to do that. So if someone out there could point me in the right direction I would be truly thankful.

Thanks in advance,
Ambientfiction
 
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You're tryiing to get this windows driver for Knoppix to use correct? You shouldn't need write capability to read the driver files.

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdc /mnt/hdc

You should be able to browse the files. There's nowhere to copy them in knoppix except for other linux filesystems you've mounted, or /home/knoppix, which is in the ramdisk.
 
This past weekend I used Knoppix 5.1 to copy files off an ntfs drive, out of a friend's dead computer. I could browse all, copy any files from the ntfs drive, just had to enable read/write permissions for the pendrive that I copied the files to.
 
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