On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Essentially , if you want the nice easy gui way, just navigate to the > file in question,via home to / and click on the desired directories to > the file in question, then right mouse click the icon for that file , > then "open with", and choose a text editor from the list, say kwrite , > or whatever one takes your fancy. When your done, just save and exit. > > > so we already have hdc=ide-scsi in the append= line of /etc/lilo.conf, > fine. > > in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to, > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 >
Ok, i did that, BUT....i tried to save, and it told me i didn't have write permission. wondering now what i did wrong. i only use one login and if i'm not mistaken, i gave myself all admin privelidges. of course, to save myself, anytime i start hunting in an area that requires that, i have to enter my password. there something i'm missing? > > Are you quite sure the jumpers on the back of your writer/rom are set to > master, and your device is on ide2 line. > Absolutely 100% positive. just put a second hard drive in last week. the origonal set up had the CDRW drive and origonal hard drive on the secondary IDE channel, CDRW as master, hard drive as slave. i put both hard drives on the primary IDE channel and set them to master and slave as needed. well, that's actually not 100% true...ASUS tech support told me to make them both CS to get the system to boot up. and it worked. then they both got switched back in order for win98 to work while installing the 2nd hard drive, and then i did the install of md9.1. i know i'm going way too much into more detail than necessary (and have a habit of doing so), but hey, it's better than me saying "uhhh, yeah, uhhh, i think so." while we're on the subject of editing the fstab file, i've got something else that needs done along the same lines. when i finally went and installed md9.1, i had my 20gb hard drive partitioned 2 ways, 5g and 15g (md9.1 is on the 15g partition), and had my 100g hard drive partitioned 5 ways. well, i didn't have one of the partitions on the 100g hard drive set up fully before installing md9.1, so i had to go about that later. i got every other hard drive partition to show and be fully accessable from linux except that last one. here's the hard drive listings in fstab /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb7 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb8 /mnt/windows vfat defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 as you notice, /dev/hdb8/mntwindows is the one i'm having problems with. so once i figure out how to get write permission for the fstab file, would i change that last one to /dev/hdb8/mnt/win_g vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,unmask=0 0 0 i'm not worried about a possible loss of data on that drive partition as there's nothing on it right now anyway. i've tried getting the thing to mount in diskdrake, but it just won't do it right. you may ask, why partition the 20gb and 100gb hard drives so many ways? win_c has mswin98 OS on it, has about 5gb of space the other 15gb on it is all linux win_c2 is my personal drive win_d is all music win_e is all reserved for video win_f is my wife's personal drive and if that last drive will mount properly, it's for shared stuff between me and the wife, pics of the kids, family stuff, you get the idea. was the best way to break up the drives for my use of the computer. plus it'll make it quicker to format out sections of the drive and scan disc them when necessary. mswin locked up when trying to scan disc the entire 100gb hard drive at once. it had over 3million clusters to go through on a fresh clean drive and it locked up in the 1million area, and that was after it ran for 3 hours to get that far! once i split it up, i was able to the through scan disc of each partition w/out mswin locking up on me. thanks for the help...just a little further to go to get this done. Mike
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