saving output of the dmesg |less command to Floppy or DOS

[rioguia]

Preliminary Question: I am trying to configure a PSMCIA card on a laptop and I think it would help to solve this problem if I could provide the
output of the dmesg |less command. I have cut and pasted this output into keditor,
kwrite, etc but have not been able to save them to either a floppy disk or a
windows parition (hda1) so that i could acess the data and provide it here. If someone
could provide step-by-step instruction on how to do this I would be very greatful.

[trommaster]

you can use '>' to output somethihg to a file.
so if you go dmesg > output
it will give you a file with all the output in it.
to copy it to the floppy, mount it then use the cp command
eg
mount /mnt/floppy
cp output /mnt/floppy

[rioguia]

GOOOAAAALLLLL!

Thanks so much for the help. I spent three hours trying to do that through the gui interface editors last night. This unix stuff is pretty slick.

I had to vary from your very clear, step-by-step instructions in only one respect. When I orginally tried to copy the output as 'output," to an msdos floppy, linux complained that it couldn't copy a "regular" file to that directory. So I thought about it for a while and said, "OK, let's call the file "output.txt." That did it. I'm very greatful that you took the time and the care to answer a stupid question. I hope I can return the favor to some other novice in the future.