Red Hat 8.0 Noob help

[vinyas]

Linux noob here

i have few files to be copied from my university Lab Pc,having red hat 8.0 installed dual boot with xp,has Usb Ports & Floopy drive

wats the way for copying files to & fro either using a pen drive or a floopy

need help on this as i am noob in linux

[vinyas]

can anybody help me ?

best would be to use a pen drive ...i guess

i dont know how to mount it

help out guys

[mediator]

Insert ur pen drive, and tell the output of command "dmesg".

[vinyas]

thnx mediator

sorry for my ignorance wr do u type this dmesg ? in a new terminal ?

[mediator]

Yea

[vinyas]

thnx again mate

we have many people sharing the machines @ lab,people tend to delete the project files by mistake or remove on purpose

i have a folder inside which contains my project files

is thr any way to protect this ? such that it does not get listed in the LS command ?

thnx for the help people

[praka123]

set permissions to protect ur files.

[vinyas]

thnx

is this procedure to followed ?

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/showpost.php?p=507336&postcount=6

[mediator]

Yes thats the procedure. To protect ur files u can make a new account for u, where u can save ur files!

[vinyas]

just for transferring files to & fro to a pendrive."dmesg" will do ?

[mediator]

Actually RH8 is very old! U shud get newer distros which automount the pendrives just like windows.

Neways, dmesg will tell to what device, like sda,sdb etc, the pendrive points at!!