Hey All, > It worked for the root directory... Am I wrong in thinking that changing / to 777 permissions is a "dangerous thing"? > however, when I tried the directory > windows I received the following messages: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ ll -d mnt > drwxrwxrwt 8 root root 4096 Apr 16 07:39 mnt/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ cd mnt > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]$ ls > cdrom/ disk/ floppy/ smb/ windows/ zip/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]$ chmod 1777 windows > chmod: changing permissions of `windows': Read-only file system
If your Windows partition is NTFS I believe that Linux can only use it as read-only so you can't change the permissions to read/write/xecute. Yes? Wayne Bow Network Administrator St Francis School (808) 988.4111 ext 107 "Quality education in a spirit of JOY"
