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Brett Eden (beden@eastwind.livewire.com.au) wrote:
: 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.
: 
: Thanks a lot,
: 
: Brett.
: 

Could be something to do with how you are mounting the drive.

The file that controls which drives, and partitions are mounted and in
what mode (readwrite or readonly) is the file system table ==> /etc/fstab.

Here is a copy of what my fstab looks like.

/dev/hda3       swap      swap      defaults   1    1
/dev/hda4       /         ext2      defaults   1    1

If you type mount from the command prompt it will tell you if the drive
has been mounted in readonly mode.



Regards
Graham