Now, everything went weird again...
I had to change operating systems again-the full version was just too bloody
slow on this old machine. I made a copy of the Trisquel Mini and booted from
it. It runs much quicker. And that was when I tried the commands above and
was able to work my files. Then I installed the operating system to the USB
drive and booted and tried the same command...
I don't know what is going on here, bu the partitions on the hard drive are
not mounted at start up nor do I have permission to mount them. I tried the
command to get to the partitions anyway and it says, naturally, there is no
such files or directory.
How do I mount the partitions?