Other Help Topics :: Odd read only problem & How to copy DVD contents



Hi

I have tried both with Puppy Linux & DSL to do one simple thing.  I own a bunch of dvd roms (not movies, they just contain data files) from a magazine I buy sometimes *Linux Format to be exact*.  I do not own a DVD Rom, but I borrowed a friends so I could copy the contents of them to a new HDD I got for my g/f.  

Now one would think this wouldn't be hard to do.  Boot off CD, mount drive & copy.  Right?  wrong.  With both distros I encountered a very strange "read only media" error.  The hard drive (hda1) for whatever reason will not allow itself to be written to.  I've set the permissions correctly afaik in both distros, yet this problem persists!

The one or two times I did succeed, it seemed to lock the computer up (well X anyway...not sure it locked up everything, but the keyboard didn't respond nor did the mouse or video).  So what can I do??  I thought booting off a cd (using a CDRom drive in addition to the DVDrom) would be a pretty neat trick so I didn't have to install anything onto this hard drive.  So far I'm stymied.

Ideas?

Aveline
I dont think you can write to an NTFS file system (IE your windows partition) from windows.

I think you need to make a linux partition and copy the files there. And then try to find a program that can view the files from windows and copy them.

Someone more experience will correct me where I went wrong here.
"sudo su" to root before beginning to copy.
Have you already made an ext2 partition and ran mke2fs
on the new HD ?


73
ke4nt
I made the drive into one big FAT32 partition.

I tried it as root from a term window useing a menu option that just opens the term windows as a root user.

no I've not make any other paritions nor do I know how with DSL tbh.  I've not really looked into that option as I do want to read & write to the drive from windows later.

Aveline
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"sudo su" to root before beginning to copy.
Have you already made an ext2 partition and ran mke2fs
on the new HD ?


so he has to modify his harddrive inorder to write stuff to it?

This is potentially dangerous stuff though. Back up your data!
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