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

Quote (jerome5 @ Sep. 01 2004,00:02)

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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!

First off, I'm a she. Secondly, the hard drives blank really. 120gb of free space with no OS or data.

aveline

In that case why dont you make a 50 gig linux partition and do a harddrive install and copy the dvd to linux then it wont be read only.

I assume that you have more than one harddrive.

Jerome:
Q: "why dont you make a 50 gig linux partition and do a harddrive install and copy the dvd to linux"
A: "I do want to read & write to the drive from windows later"
You can't easily accomplish this without buying another piece of software.

aveline:
You should be able to write to fat32 without trouble.
If you're getting "read-only" messages, it's likely that you should look at the mount options. It could be that the drive is being mounted read-only, which would bypass any permissions you have set.
You might try "mount -t vfat -o rw /dev/hd** /mnt/fat", replacing hd** and /mnt/fat with the appropriate device and mountpoint.

Tooks some fiddling but it seems to have worked...tho the first time i tried your solution still got that error.

it works as root only & in the help file i couldn't see how to mount it so the user DSL can copy files to the hard drive. so whats the switch for that?

ty much

Avey

I think this works..
mount -t vfat -o rw uid=500 /dev/hd** /mnt/fat

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