Almost sounds liek you have no write permissions to the drive. Check the
perms, also what format are the partitions filesystems, have file
systems been created?
ec wrote:
>Continued from previous message re.
>
>I just used kwrite on this other machine and saved a
>test message, shut down, reopened kwrite and went to
>it and opened it. But the other machine..the
>reformatted on, gives errors when attempting to do
>that..
>
>So I think something in the 'setup' of the hd' on
>reformatting it, is messed up, but what??
>
>I have tried 3 different programs to reformat and save
>the new partitions and it still wont write to that hd.
>
>1. The gui based one in Mdk9.2, but shutdown when it
>gets to the install point. Done that before to
>'splitup' existing hd's with no problems.
>
>2. Qtparted...reformatted and saved...I think
>
>3. Fdisk, which I have used before.
>
>???
>--- Mark Jarvis <mark.jarvis@pvmail.maricopa.edu>
>wrote:
>
>
>>Have you tried Mepis?
>>
>>-mj-
>>
>>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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