Did you right click on partition, choose action and make it read/write?

JD

ec wrote:

>Wife wanted me to wipe out the hd. We copied (twice)
>to cdrom 'her files'. 
>
>I used three different partition managers and cannot
>get even Knoppix to write to them.
>
>Knoppix will 'save config', make swap file, but will
>not write from OO.o or kwrite.
>
>This is a Gateway kludge in that apparently there is a
>secondary disk controller similiar to this machine. It
>is built in whereas this one is an addon card for a
>modern hd (not one of the old pio3/4 types). the
>reason I believe it has a secondary controller is
>several fold. 
>1. First drive (primary) is hde1 not hda1 and all
>'logicals' are hdeX also.
>2. That is the way this ole 350 denotes drives also
>with its secondary controller. (like that promise
>ultra 66 card that was given away at eastside
>thursday.)
>
>Well, 'the power to be', er, the wife, doesn't want an
>installed system, but rather a 'poorman's install' of
>knoppix.
>
>Knoppix boots from cd, but wont copy to hd. 
>
>Strange that BEFORE I resized and reformatted the hd,
>she had no problems booting to Knoppix3.6 'poorman's
>install' version. It had a crippled w98 on hde1 and a
>one disk Suse 9 on one partition.
>
>I cannot get it to reinstall even that 'poor man's'
>mirrored iso image! It just skips the 'knoppix
>cheatcode' to do so!
>
>Strange!
>
>May have to drag it down to ASU Saturday, but would
>love to fix it here.
>
>Cyclists should expect and demand safe 
>accommodation on our public roads, 
>just as does every other user.  
>
>Nothing more is expected. 
>
>Nothing less is acceptable!
>
>Long live Knoppix!!
>
>
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