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Topic: Can't write to disk!, Permissions denied

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Posted: Jan. 08 2004,10:47

I love DSL (it has been a while since I tried it before) and the latest version is perfect! So naturally I wanted to do a hd install, especially since all of my hardware works. When I try, I get a permissions denied message when I tell it what partition to install to. What do I do now? Should I blow out my Linux partition with Knoppix or what?

Any help will be appreciated.

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peter

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Posted: Jan. 08 2004,10:56

Perhaps you could tell us what the error message is? And at what point it occurs..... what precedes it and so on.

I mean the specific message- maybe you could paste it if it isn't long.
I assume you are doing this as root and not trying it as "user."..

woverin

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Posted: Jan. 08 2004,11:10

You might choose the wrong partition
make sure that you are root when you wanna run dsl-hdinstall

Code Sample

sudo su

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Posted: Jan. 08 2004,11:20

How do you get root in DSL? What's the password?

Thanks.

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ou_ryperd

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Posted: Jan. 08 2004,13:42

The root password is not available.
If you want to execute a command as root: sudo [comand]
if you want to stay root as long as the terminal is open: sudo su
if you want to be able to login as root: sudo passwd, then type a new password for root.

HTH

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