The problem was in the third-party instructions which suggested that the USB-stick would have been auto-mounted at /media/hda1

I did have my doubts, now confirmed, as USB-sticks are normally /dev/sdX devices rather than /dev/hdX devices, but some setups do weird things in that regard (eg. the empeg itself!). And there does not seem to be any auto-mounting happening either.

So insert the USB stick, and do this:
Code:
modprobe usb-storage
mkdir /tmp/usb
mount /dev/sda1 /tmp/usb    ## Abort if this line fails
mount mtd:mfg -t jffs2 /mfg
cp /mfg/mfg.dat /tmp/usb/
umount /mfg
umount /tmp/usb
sync

I have written it out one command per line to make it easier to grok, but one could condense it by combining commands. A semi-colon (;) can be used to separate multiple commands placed on the same line. Another way is to join commands with &&, which means "only continue if the previous command worked".

You can see examples of those from the earlier attempts above.

The # symbol is for comments, and means "ignore the rest of this line". I generally write it as ## to make it more obvious, rather than #, but either way it's a comment that doesn't need to be typed out.


Edited by mlord (16/03/2019 15:01)