Negative, the Ubuntu live CD will tell you that because you are not the owner of the file, you cannot change the permissions. I was able to put another install on the same computer, copy it and then change the permissions on the copy that I had made.
That turned out to tbe the easiiest thing to do because it could work over in the corner while I did other things. On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 15:21 -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > On 2011-03-31 12:18, Mark Wallace wrote: > > Still no luck. If I enabled root, would I be able to change the > > permissions using the live CD? > > Huh? If you're running a LiveCD, what you'd be concerned with would be > getting root privileges within the LiveCD environment, and would have > nothing to do with whether you enabled root in the distro you're running > on the hard disk or not. Once you've got root privileges in the LiveCD > environment, that will allow you to make whatever changes you want to > any mounted partition, too. > -- Mark Robert Mark Wallace 60 Delaware Road Newburgh, NY 12550-3802 Tel: (845) 566-0586 US Cell (845) 541-7396 Ca Cell: (902) 314-4521 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Apr 6 - Introduction to IPv6 May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra
