cp command help!

[jbduvall]

first- i tried, and read, and tried and read

note: trying to learn how to do tasks via command structure as I want to become RHCSA in the future.....i am newbie

problem: i am trying to copy from (Ubuntu) a driver folder from a CD to another partition so that I can access the internet on CentOS .( which is the OS on another partition on my HD)

i have done this so far:

mkdir /disk1
mount /dev/sda1 /disk1

if i do
df -k

i can see the other drive ( the one with Centos)

now i did this after putting in cd and finding the file

$ cp /media/G71-MAD1015/Network/Atheros/8131 /dev/sda1/

and i get " accessing ..... not a directory"

then i added /root/home/Desktop

and got same response

I am confused

[VanHalenMan]

You are getting the 'not a directory' error because /dev/sda1 is a device not a directory.

Looks like you mounted /dev/sda1 to /disk1 so /disk1 is the directory to which you should copy:

$ cp /media/G71-MAD1015/Network/Atheros/8131 /disk1

[oz]

note: trying to learn how to do tasks via command structure as I want to become RHCSA in the future.....i am newbie

Hello and welcome to the forums!

Once you get past this issue, and if you haven't done so already, check out LinuxCommand.org for some quick and easy lessons on learning the command line under Linux. It should help you to achieve your goal.

Let us know how you are progressing with it.

[jbduvall]

thank you,

it worked!! but I have encountered more problems... i will see if i can navigate my way through it!

goal is to get ndiswrapper to work so i can access internet, but apparently ndiswrapper needs internet to access mirrors!
haha

[TSR]

Hi .../dev/sda is partition.

keep in mind..everytime u do a copy

CP "source" to"destination" for file
CP -R "source" to destination for a directory
source===media
destination==disk1

cp -r /media/....path... /disk1