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mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 25 2005,14:54

I don't fully understand how DSL deals with pendrives. I've been using frugal DSL on a harddrive, and the frugal boot option allows me to write to /cdrom. I assume it should be the same for a pendrive.
When you boot with the frugal option, can you create a new directory in /cdrom, either as user dsl or root? You *should* be able to do this as far as i can tell.
Did you originally create the data directory while logged in to the same pendrive-installed DSL system? If so, there is something very wrong if you can create but not change.

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cbagger01

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Posted: Aug. 25 2005,16:54

The "frugal" option does work the same way for pendrives that it does for hard drives.

So it should be possible to type something like:

dsl frugal

or

dsl frugal fromhd=/dev/sda1

at the "Boot:" prompt.

crew

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,09:51

Hmm I´ve tried booting with "dsl frugal",
"dsl frugal fromhd=/dev/sda1" and without any
option, in every case with the same effect.

As root I can create a directory, as user I get a
permission denied.
chown always say operation permitted, chmod does not bring
an errormessage but is not changeing any attribut. :/

mikshaw

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Posted: Aug. 26 2005,13:40

That sounds really weird. The only thing I can think of is that you are not actually trying these commands as root. If root can create a directory in /cdrom, it is mounted writeable and root should also be able to chown, chmod, rm, slice, dice, and julienne this directory.

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