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oasis13

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,09:58

Hi,
im running dsl from the live cd and i cant save to my harddrive. I only have 1 harddrive (hda1) which i have mounted and i can open files from it (i.e mp3s) but i cant save onto it. This also means i cant save my settings which is very annoying. Does anyone have any help?

my hd is a 40gb ntfs hd.

Thanks!

JustoTech

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,11:53

The only LiveCD I've ever heard of that could save to NTFS is the newest version of Knoppix. Typically, Linux and NTFS fight like cats and dogs and have a lot of fun even seeing each other.

The only way you'll be able to get anything on that hard drive is to repartition with a FAT and a NTFS partition. Linux can right to FAT with little to no issues at all.

You may either do that or just go buy a cheap HDD (Garage Sales) and format it as FAT so that you can save stuff to it and copy to your NTFS partition in Winders.

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brianw

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,13:49

When it is mounted it is probably mounted read only (ro) try using
mount -t vfat -rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 (or where ever you mount it now).

If it is not read only you probably need root access to save files to that drive. If you are trying to copy something there try "sudo cp <filename> <destination>" for other commands try using the sudo first to see if that works.

mikshaw

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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,14:36

Brian: it's NTFS...it won't mount that way.

Justo is correct. You're not going to be able to write to NTFS from DSL no matter how it's mounted. You could try getting something like captiveNTFS installed (i can't help you there, but i assume it's possible)...but you will likely not get the same performance that you would with a native linux filesystem.

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