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sacredchao) wrote2008-09-14 10:18 pm
sacredchao) wrote2008-09-14 10:18 pm
I am not 1337
Put together a computer from leftover bits and tried to boot. Nope, XP system disc does not want to play. I'd format without a second though except for the several GB of music resident on it. Faff, poke, fiddle, find Knoppix 3.3 bootable CD and decide to give it a shot. All good, it even finds the external USB HDD caddy and reads the drive happily. So, copy file from one to the other.
Nope.
Konqueror will not write to either drive. The "Super user" file manager wants to be used out of the root account, not the "Knoppix" account but damned if I can work out how to get into root, given that the root password isn't anywhere to be found on the disc. Still, I wouldn't have thought that creating a new folder would be a root only exercise; all I want to do is copy files.
Anyone want to give the noob a clue?
Nope.
Konqueror will not write to either drive. The "Super user" file manager wants to be used out of the root account, not the "Knoppix" account but damned if I can work out how to get into root, given that the root password isn't anywhere to be found on the disc. Still, I wouldn't have thought that creating a new folder would be a root only exercise; all I want to do is copy files.
Anyone want to give the noob a clue?