Man, do I have a LOT to learn! :-)
Pete, you'll be glad to know that I ran into the same read/only hard drive
problem you had. I thought about it for a moment, logged back in as root,
and all was fine. Obviously, it's a permissions issue, but beats me where
they hid it!
Does anyone know of a link to a "gently hand-holding guide for people
moving from Windows to Linux?" Thanks, all. Been a long time since I've
had so much fun on the computer.
Oh goody..... it's nearly 3am. Night, all.
You will want to check out the Linux Document Project (tldp.org), as they
have LOTS of How-Tos, etc. For the man not afraid of the character-based
prompt, there are manuals on everything in Linux, albeit not quite as
friendly. Just type 'man xxx', where xxx is what you want to find out
about. Changing permissions on files and directories, you need a command
called 'chmod', so open that terminal window and fire in 'man chmod', and
read away. The adventure is on! Sleep?!? Who can sleep? ;-)
Bob
Holmes & Turner
-----Original Message-----
From: prolinux-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:prolinux-bounces@leafe.com]On
Behalf Of Vince Teachout
Sent: August 08, 2003 12:45 AM
To: ProLinux Email List
Subject: [ProLinux] Still in love, but....
Man, do I have a LOT to learn! :-)
Pete, you'll be glad to know that I ran into the same read/only hard drive
problem you had. I thought about it for a moment, logged back in as root,
and all was fine. Obviously, it's a permissions issue, but beats me where
they hid it!
Does anyone know of a link to a "gently hand-holding guide for people
moving from Windows to Linux?" Thanks, all. Been a long time since I've
had so much fun on the computer.
Oh goody..... it's nearly 3am. Night, all.
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Vince Teachout writes:
> Pete, you'll be glad to know that I ran into the same
> read/only hard drive problem you had. I thought about it for
> a moment, logged back in as root, and all was fine.
> Obviously, it's a permissions issue, but beats me where they
> hid it!
Is it read only for the entire drive? Can you read/write to your=20
home directory?
--=20
Paul McNett
At 07:28 AM 8/8/03 -0700, Paul McNett wrote:
>Is it read only for the entire drive? Can you read/write to your
>home directory?
I'm pretty sure - yes. Just can't write to the C.windows folders. However,
when I'm on as root, I can, so I know it's a permissions problem. Last
night I wasn't really trying to do much other than poke around, see what
the buttons do and oooh, and aaaaah. Also tried to get my USB modem and
USB Cable modem to work, but no luck. Not worried, at this point. As I
get time over the next few weeks, I'll start to learn more and then begin
to seriously start migrating to Linux.
At 08:17 AM 8/8/03 -0600, Bob Edgar wrote:
>You will want to check out the Linux Document Project (tldp.org), as they
>have LOTS of How-Tos, etc.
Thanks! Will do.
> For the man not afraid of the character-based
>prompt, there are manuals on everything in Linux, albeit not quite as
>friendly.
As an old DOS man, who still opens an MSDOS prompt as my *first* step in
solving any problem, text don't scare me none.
>The adventure is on! Sleep?!? Who can sleep? ;-)
About 3:30am, this 40year old body said - "you BETTER sleep, son!" Lots of
fun. Last time I stayed up that late playing with a new toy was when I got
my very first computer - a TI-994A!
Hi Vince!
I'm never glad when other people have trouble, even if they are having the
same trouble I had. "I told you so" isn't in me, except as a joke.
I am still read only, logging in as root didn't do it for me. I will put
Gentoo on this box and be done with SuSE, that way my guru and I will be on
the same page. It is probably something I could fix but the heck with it.
Life is short.
Nice that you enjoy this, I have work to do and it isn't fun for me. But I
just can't let the Great Satan dis my little charity and get away with it.
Regards,
Pete
At 02:45 AM 8/8/03 -0400, you wrote:
>Man, do I have a LOT to learn! :-)
>
>Pete, you'll be glad to know that I ran into the same read/only hard drive
>problem you had. I thought about it for a moment, logged back in as root,
>and all was fine. Obviously, it's a permissions issue, but beats me where
>they hid it!
>
>Does anyone know of a link to a "gently hand-holding guide for people
>moving from Windows to Linux?" Thanks, all. Been a long time since I've
>had so much fun on the computer.
>
>Oh goody..... it's nearly 3am. Night, all.
>
>
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On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 04:50 PM, Pete Theisen wrote:
> I am still read only, logging in as root didn't do it for me.
Log in as root, and at the terminal cd to the directory containing the
drive that is causing the problem. IOW, if the drive is located at
/mnt/foobar, then cd /mnt.
From there, type: ls -l (those are lower-case "L"s). You should see a
full directory listing. Check out the line for the problem drive. It
should look something like:
drwxr-xr-x 1 ed wheel 4.0K Aug 4 17:58 winmysql
Post what you have for your drive, and I'll be able to help straighten
it out.
___/
/
__/
/
____/
Ed Leafe
Ed Leafe writes:
> > I am still read only, logging in as root didn't do it for
> > me.
>
> Log in as root, and at the terminal cd to the
> directory containing the drive that is causing the problem.
> IOW, if the drive is located at /mnt/foobar, then cd /mnt.
>
> From there, type: ls -l (those are lower-case "L"s).
> You should see a full directory listing. Check out the line
> for the problem drive. It should look something like:
>
> drwxr-xr-x 1 ed wheel 4.0K Aug 4 17:58
> winmysql
>
> Post what you have for your drive, and I'll be able
> to help straighten it out.
Also post the contents of your /etc/fstab file.
--=20
Paul McNett
Hi Paul!
My whole d: drive is read only. And the SuSE GRUB defaults to Linux unless
you catch it. Just let me get my hands on that Gentoo self-install 2 CD
set! I will fdisk that puppy in two wags of the tail!
OK, maybe I'll play with it a little just for educational purposes, then
fdisk it.
Regards,
Pete
At 07:28 AM 8/8/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Vince Teachout writes:
>
>> Pete, you'll be glad to know that I ran into the same
>> read/only hard drive problem you had. I thought about it for
>> a moment, logged back in as root, and all was fine.
>> Obviously, it's a permissions issue, but beats me where they
>> hid it!
>
>Is it read only for the entire drive? Can you read/write to your
>home directory?
>
>--
>Paul McNett
>
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Hi Ed!
Thanks, it's at home and I am at the clinic, but I'll get to it eventually.
Thanks again.
Regards,
Pete
At 07:26 PM 8/8/03 -0400, you wrote:
>On Friday, August 8, 2003, at 04:50 PM, Pete Theisen wrote:
>
>> I am still read only, logging in as root didn't do it for me.
>
> Log in as root, and at the terminal cd to the directory containing the
>drive that is causing the problem. IOW, if the drive is located at
>/mnt/foobar, then cd /mnt.
>
> From there, type: ls -l (those are lower-case "L"s). You should see a
>full directory listing. Check out the line for the problem drive. It
>should look something like:
>
>drwxr-xr-x 1 ed wheel 4.0K Aug 4 17:58 winmysql
>
> Post what you have for your drive, and I'll be able to help straighten
>it out.
>
> ___/
> /
> __/
> /
> ____/
> Ed Leafe
>
>
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