Permission Denied

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Permission Denied
started by: MediaMan

Posted by MediaMan on Oct. 24 2006,19:54

I'm trying to instal DSL on an old Dell XPi using the instructions posted by roberts. Everything is copacetic until I issue the command

./frugal_lite.sh

at which point the response is: permission denied

Help!

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 24 2006,20:22

Which link is that?

Anyways, you'll probably either need to
- make this executable (chmod +x)
- run this as root (sudo)
- or both.

It's probably easier to use the menu system though.

Posted by MediaMan on Oct. 24 2006,20:34

The link is
< http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/network-install.html >

Anyway, I'm new to Linux, have forgotten most of my old DOS commands, and don't know how to make this executable.

Thanks

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 24 2006,20:54

I gave the example in the parenthesis... did you point it to the script file?

This isn't DOS so don't worry ;p (I don't think it has the exec permission)

Posted by MediaMan on Oct. 25 2006,19:10

Thanks!

Actually, the script - frugal_lite.sh - didn't work properly. Either the download site was busy, or there was an error in the script.

However, using a copy of the script for reference, I followed the steps, downloading the .iso and .img files from < ftp://ftp.heanet.ie > and installing them according to the script commands. So far so good! I was able to boot using the floppy according to 6/26 post of roberts, and perform a harddrive install.

After rebooting to the hard drive and going through all the preliminaries, I gey a response:

fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 resets remaining.

Help!?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Oct. 25 2006,20:10

It might've been outdated as well...

Looks like this could potentially be a hardware-related problem - could you post your system specs? Also, are there any errors leading up to the final error?

I'm assuming nothing else went wrong and that this is only an X problem - but you can check dmesg after if you still have console access.

Posted by MediaMan on Nov. 01 2006,03:28

OK, here goes on the equipment

Computer: Dell XPi
CPU: Mobile Pentium 75-200 running at 99mhz
PS2 mouse - 2 button
Hard drive: Hitachi 30 gb
Display: Magigaph NM2070
NIC (docking adapter): 3Com 3C920

Posted by MediaMan on Nov. 01 2006,03:30

Oops, there's more

Memory: 40MB

There were no other error messages leading up to that one.

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Nov. 01 2006,04:31

Can you run dmesg?

And did you try booting with xsetup (or run xsetup.sh)?