Red Hat

Hello ,
I recently decided to change from Red hat 9 OS to Fedora 14 but I wanted to copy all the files in the root directory to my usb . every time I copy the file and move them to my usb folder I get an error windows with permission denied warning , although I'm the only user and I entered the root password ???

What to do , i really don't want to lose these files but I'm tired of manually mount CD's and USb's every time I want to run something on my computer

Any suggestion or solution please . I would really appreciate any help .

Best regards

Loly

I would not copy EVERYTHING from the / directory over if I were you. Also, in order to make sure many things continue to work, I'd suggest you tar them in the process.

I tried to copy only the files I really needed which are already compressed or even open a new text file and copy the content but with no luck , what can I do ??

Can I install a new OS while keeping the root directory untouched so that I would be able to use the files in it later ?????

This sounds like a bigger issue. Why can't you copy the files? Explain what steps you have tried.