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Everything Else => General Support and Discussion => Zaurus General Forums => Archived Forums => Hardware Mods => Topic started by: Johnnas on February 20, 2008, 02:46:15 pm
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I am setting up a DSL rig. I have sorted out most of the problems that I have been having (thx in part to the people on this forum). My biggest issue right now is that I don't understand why my floppy drive (/dev/fd0) and my hard drive (/dev/hda1) are write protected, and my flash drive (/dev/sda1) is not. They all have similar permissions as set through chmod, they all have the same file type (buffered/blocked), and the owners for all of them and the groups for all of them are the same.
What I am trying to do is use the floppy as my removeable media. How can I change its write protected status?
Thx in advance
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I am setting up a DSL rig. I have sorted out most of the problems that I have been having (thx in part to the people on this forum). My biggest issue right now is that I don't understand why my floppy drive (/dev/fd0) and my hard drive (/dev/hda1) are write protected, and my flash drive (/dev/sda1) is not. They all have similar permissions as set through chmod, they all have the same file type (buffered/blocked), and the owners for all of them and the groups for all of them are the same.
What I am trying to do is use the floppy as my removeable media. How can I change its write protected status?
Thx in advance
What is on the drive? (/hda1) is it an NTFS partition? if so... I know in the earlier verisons of DSL it wouldnt mount NTFS partitions due to possible corruption.
But this was about 1yr 1/2 ago and the NTFS drivers have greatly enhanced...
Now if it is a linux partition... do a "mount" and see if it is set at RO from being mounted... in /etc/fstab... from there you can just mount it again rw with -o rw
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or... if you are building from an DSL CD or installed a version of DSL... the root partition (maybe hda1) is prolly readonly for a reason.
Late