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beden@eastwind.livewire.com.au (Brett Eden) writes:

>Please don't laugh :)

>I'm a Linux newbie, and after installing Linux for the first time, found
>that I couldn't write to my drive because it had been set read only.  Any
>idea why it did this when I first installed?  Obviously I couldn't change
>it because even though I loaded the file that contains the read/write perm
>thing into Pico, I couldn't save the output.

You have to take out your hard disk and peel off the write-protect sticker
on the back left hand corner.  B-)

Seriously though, something must have gone wrong in the installation of
yor /etc/rc scripts, as they are responsible for remounting it read-write.
In the meantime, just do (as root)

# mount -n -o rw,remount /
	or
# mount -n -o remount /

so that you can fix things up. The "rw" is implied with most versions of the
mount program.

Paul.