All,

I have a realy stupid problem.

I have a drive that with vfat on, and I can't delete some files from it. The
files have been copied from CD-rom and have read only and system. I get the
error messages permission denied.

How do I change this?

/Niklas

> -----Ursprungligt meddelande-----
> Från: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Skickat: den 22 januari 2001 06:46
> Till: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Kopia: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ämne: RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow
> 
> 
> 
> Decide if your machines will be connected to the internet 
> DIRECTLY, or thru
> a private LAN.
> 
> Direct connections will mean that you'll have to register 
> your DOMAIN name
> and IP addresses with the internic.
> 
> There will probably be an associated cost with your ISP to 
> have multiple
> connections.
> 
> As a result, most home users don't do this. Rather they 
> resort to having
> only one internet connected machine. Masq provides internet connection
> sharing in Linux. Masq'd machines are not really "ON" the 
> internet, though
> they behave like they are.
> 
> If this machine will have two interface cards, one to the 
> local lan, and one
> to the internet, you do the following.
> 
> FIRST install the one interface card into your system.
> 
> Set up Linux and give your machine an arbitrary name and domain name.
> 
> Say: "mylinuxbox.joesplace.com"
> 
> By default then, "mylinuxbox" becomes the hostname and "joesplace.com"
> becomes the domain name for your eth0 interface.
> 
> Since this interface is never "seen" on the internet, this 
> does not cause
> any problems.
> 
> Configure your other machines on the protected private lan to 
> be members of
> the "joesplace.com" domain.
> 
> You finish configuring your machine, and Linux is happy.
> 
> Then comes the time to set up your DSL/CABLE modem.
> 
> Pop in the other Ethernet card, connect the DSL/CABLE modem 
> to it (via a hub
> or xcross cable) and give it the hostname of "bcurry" and domain of
> "mediaone.net".
> 
> Then enable dhcp on the eth1 interface.
> 
> Though bcurry.mediaone.net might be wrong, dhcp will adjust the host &
> domain name correctly when the connection is first started.
> 
> Thus once you connect to the internet, you may find that your 
> hostname will
> change!
> 
> You may want/need to fix things so this does not happen, or 
> use what the ISP
> "gives" you.
> 
> If you are going to run an HTTP, FTP or other internet SERVER 
> you'll need to
> register your domain with the internic. You'll also need to 
> get your ISP to
> "FIX" your IP so it doesn't change. You then register your IP with the
> internic (also get your ISP to add an entry into their DNS...).
> 
> Each of these will cost a few dollars.
> 
> If you are not going to run these services, then you can 
> utilize any domain
> name you want...
> 
> ...esp. if you will be using dhcp to grab an IP from the ISP.
> 
> 
> Linux MUST have a host & domain name of some sort to prevent 
> those long
> pauses. Even then you'll still see one or two during startup, 
> as services
> start up which look for a DNS...
> 
> -JMS
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Bob Currey
> Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 5:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [newbie] Help! new 7.2 system has gotten abominably slow
> 
> 
> As I'm reading this, the install's host name prompt screen 
> sits in front of
> me.  Because of my setup, I am always lost in the how-tos as 
> far as host
> name is concerned.  At the moment, I'm loading a new server.  
> For the time
> being, it will have eth0 connected to my home net, getting an 
> IP address via
> the DHCP server on my other Linux box which is currently the 
> server.  The
> 2nd NIC at eth1 is not connected at present, and won't be used till I
> replace the old server with this new one, and then eth1 will 
> run a DHCP
> server for the home LAN.
> 
> The fact that I don't have a Domain has caused me tremendous 
> grief, in that
> setting up Apache, Samba, a DNS server, the FTP server, the 
> Proxy server,
> etc, all expect one, when you read the how-tos.  For someone 
> not a Linux
> guru, it makes the stuff incomprehensible, as nothing fits.  For that
> reason, I ended up giving up at least for the time being on 
> installing them
> on my server (both the old one and new one), but would be 
> very grateful if
> someone could explain what I'm supposed to fill in when they 
> want you to put
> in your domain name in these setups.  I spent many hours 
> reading and never
> understood how to set them up as a result.  I imagine anyone 
> else with a
> home LAN that doesn't have a domain name (and this would be 
> normal, I'd
> expect) would be having the same trouble.
> 
> 

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