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post #21 of 25
10/24/06 at 10:48pm
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Originally Posted by mike27
Ah, I did forget to type "key" in that command. Thanks Olly. Once I ran those earlier commands, I used startx and went into the wireless assistant. That's when my network finally showed up and it asked me for the WEP key. I entered it and got connected. It's been working great ever since. I'm learning more about the commands and such for this distro now and it's going good. I finally figured out how to access my external drive. It won't let me write to it for some reason...says permissions won't allow. I went to the properties and tried to change the permissions, but it wouldn't let me do that either. Anybody have any idea about that? If not, I'll read some more until I figure it out. Thanks for the extra advice Olly and adewolf.

Mike

When you mount your drive, do it as follows:

mount -t vfat -o umask=0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb0

See if that helps



-olly
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post #22 of 25
10/24/06 at 11:56pm
Actually I would suspect a much easier answer than that....

Is your external drive formatted as NTFS?

If so that is your reason. We can continue that topic if it is.

Seablade
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post #23 of 25
10/25/06 at 12:32am
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Originally Posted by seablade
Actually I would suspect a much easier answer than that....

Is your external drive formatted as NTFS?

If so that is your reason. We can continue that topic if it is.

Seablade

Lol, here I go for the complex answer, and youhave to come up with a much simpler reason why.

At any rate, you are right, NTFS is probably the problem.

-olly
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post #24 of 25
10/25/06 at 2:35am
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Actually, I'm not sure. I would suspect that it is though. I've normally used it with windows. If that's the case, how could I fix it?
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post #25 of 25
10/25/06 at 9:31am
Well there are NTFS drivers for linux, but many don't use them. Instead you could do one of several things, format as FAT32(Do this in Linux, NOT Windows. Windows cripples FAT32 utilities) is the most common and easiest. Or you could install the drivers for the ext filesystem in Windows and format it as Ext(Probably the better solution, but you would have problems taking it elsewhere and using it without keeping the drivers on a seperate FAT32 partition to install, and even then you need admin priveliges, unfortunatly usually on Windows that is not a problem except in institutions and corporations)

Seablade

PS> 'fdisk -l' Should tell you what the format is while it is attached, not that is 'L' not 'I' as the flag to it.
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