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262755 2004-08-18 23:52:00 Okay, Ive managed to change the permissions on those folders so i can access them, but even as root I can change the permission of my mounted data folder...

Will now try editing fstab.
willie_M (5608)
262756 2004-08-19 02:19:00 chmod -R 777 /Wallpapers
Read / Write access for all.....
Chilling_Silence (9)
262757 2004-08-19 02:20:00 Here's the line from my fstab to do my External HDD:
/dev/external /mnt/external auto umask=000,user,noauto 0 0

That's for Fat32


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
262758 2004-08-19 02:36:00 Netware is a secure networking system. You have to be alegal registered client to access files in it. That's what it's about. However, one of the key features of Netware is that clients for all OSs are available. Including Linux.

You can even run a Netware server under Linux. I've done this in the remote past.;-)

You can install a Netware client. Whether this will work with the mofrem modern releases of Linux, or on a modern Netware server is another thing. This page at Caldera (www.caldera.com) should get you started. That should also lead you to their FTP server which will have the software.
Graham L (2)
262759 2004-08-19 03:30:00 Is that software free?

The network drive I'm trying to get to is my document files on the AUT server. I have a password and login etc, etc, but yeah, can't seem to see it.

I'm having a new problem now... I get home and since I reinstalled windows it wiped grub off the boot menu. Now when I try to rescue using the SuSE disk, it says Cannot mount root fs.

That was off the SuSE rescue boot and ATOMICTV disk.

Also, how can I mount a USB pendrive? Whats the name thingy? (hda7, hdb3 etc, etc)

Cheers
willie_M (5608)
262760 2004-08-19 06:46:00 > I'm having a new problem now... I get home and since
> I reinstalled windows it wiped grub off the boot
> menu. Now when I try to rescue using the SuSE disk,
> it says Cannot mount root fs.
>
> That was off the SuSE rescue boot and ATOMICTV disk.

What are you doing when you get that message? Are you chrooting to your HDD / from the CD?

> Also, how can I mount a USB pendrive? Whats the name
> thingy? (hda7, hdb3 etc, etc)

USB pendrives are sdx's. If you plug your pendrive in, and then enter in a console window dmesg you should see the device recognised (look at end of output) and it will be called sdx.
Example of when I plug in my USB pendrive:
usb 1-6.1: new high speed USB device using address 19
scsi14 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Vendor: USB 2.0 Model: Flash Disk Rev: PROL
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sdb: 512000 512-byte hdwr sectors (262 MB)
Someone recently was complaining how SuSE handles USB pendrives, so have a search of this forum as well. Typically, you make a mount point for it under /mnt and then mount the device. You should be able to then view the drive contents from the /mnt/{mountpoint} directory or make a icon on the desktop which points to this mount point.

Eg: mkdir /mnt/usbpen
mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usbpen

You can also get all fancy and edit your fstab as well:
/dev/sdb /mnt/usbpen auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
Jen C (20)
262761 2004-08-19 07:51:00 >USB pendrives are sdx's.....

Sweet, that sorts that out, thanks Jen...

>What are you doing when you get that message? Are you chrooting to your HDD / from the CD?

This is just when linux is trying to boot.
willie_M (5608)
262762 2004-08-19 08:58:00 Hmmm....

Might pay to download the Gentoo Install Disc.

Its probably the smallest Disc I know of that will let you do what you need (Be it re-install GRUB).

You can follow the instructions from the Gentoo Handbook to properly mount /mnt/suse (It'll be /mnt/gentoo in the handbook but you're just mounting your rootfs in /mnt/gentoo so who cares what its called).

You'll want /mnt/gentoo/proc mounted, perhaps mount --bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
You'll then want to mount /boot
From there:
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash

And then sort out re-installing GRUB.
Dont forget to cat /proc/partitions to get the list of partitions and then just sort out which is swap, /boot, /, windows etc

Hope this helps


Chill.
Chilling_Silence (9)
262763 2004-08-20 03:25:00 The netware client software will be free. Graham L (2)
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