Hi again, sudo chmod -R 777 /media/SimpleDrive/music got me a whole bunch of this:
chmod: changing permissions of `/media/SimpleDrive/music/FLAC/PowerAMP/Elvis Costello/My Aim Is True/Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True [Rhino Bonus Disc] Disc 1 - 08 - Less Than Zero.flac': Read-only file system chmod: changing permissions of `/media/SimpleDrive/music/FLAC/PowerAMP/Elvis Costello/My Aim Is True/Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True [Rhino Bonus Disc] Disc 1 - 09 - Mystery Dance.flac': Read-only file system chmod: changing permissions of `/media/SimpleDrive/music/FLAC/PowerAMP/Elvis Costello/My Aim Is True/Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True [Rhino Bonus Disc] Disc 1 - 10 - Pay It Back.flac': Read-only file system This is actually pretty embarrassing, as I do not know what or why I am doing these things. I have much to learn. However, it "seems" obvious that what I am trying to accomplish with the above command is to allow permissions to these files, hopefully to get SS to "see" the drive and files. So far, still no go. So I again copied and pasted the file path /media/SimpleDrive/music to SS setting, music folder, with the same result of "opps, no such directory". So would the next step be along the lines of what bukharin is describing? I also of course need to be able to write to this external drive. I am still ripping and adding to my digital music collection, and will store it on this drive. I appreciate all the patience here. It is obvious I need to get a handle on what commands do, and I look forward to it. I would love to start a thread, maybe at Linuxquestions, about Linux and the ability of a NOOB to use it. My VERY short experience with Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS is that it will be quite easy to do the easy stuff, emailing, WWW and so on (I'm also holding out to see what it will take to hot-sync palm OS with Evolution), however, I can not describe what I am going through here as easy. I was extremely impressed with how easy it was for me to install SS using the info from slimdevices page and synaptic, that was really slick! I don't want to sound like I am complaining, I hope I can learn something new, but from reading through some of the Linux forums, there seems to be some talk about whether Linux is even yet ready for the masses. Sorry about that, this is definitely something for another thread, there is quite a lot going on here as it is. -- mgh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mgh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10308 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
