Netzilla
01-30-2007, 05:22 PM
I am completely new to Linux and am running KNOPPIX off the live CD to give it a trial run. So far everything has been running smooth, however there is a significant problem that I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing, KNOPPIX is doing or a hardware incompatability. All of my hard disks are Read Only even though only the Windows partition is actually NTFS. All are IDE.
When I attempt to save anything, here is the error message I recieve:
"The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file:///media/sda5/Linux%20Printer%20Driver.txt.
Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available."
I have run the following diagnostic commands (unfortunately I can't make much of them myself as I'm not familiar enough with Linux):
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ cat /etc/fstab
/proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/fd0 auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/hdc auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppi x 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 /media/hda5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
/ramdisk /ramdisk tmpfs rw,size=827780k,mode=755 0 0
/UNIONFS /UNIONFS aufs rw,br:/ramdisk:/KNOPPIX 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/cloop /KNOPPIX iso9660 ro 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0666 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=1000 ,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=1000 ,gid=1000 0 0
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old / ext2 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/cloop /KNOPPIX iso9660 ro 0 0
/ramdisk /ramdisk tmpfs rw 0 0
/UNIONFS /UNIONFS aufs rw,xino=/ramdisk/.aufs.xino,br:/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old /dev/.static/dev ext2 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask =0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=winnt 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask =0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=winnt 0 0
Thanks in advance for your help.
When I attempt to save anything, here is the error message I recieve:
"The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to file:///media/sda5/Linux%20Printer%20Driver.txt.
Check that you have write access to this file or that enough disk space is available."
I have run the following diagnostic commands (unfortunately I can't make much of them myself as I'm not familiar enough with Linux):
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ cat /etc/fstab
/proc /proc proc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/fd0 auto user,noauto,exec,umask=000 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/hdc auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppi x 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 /media/hda5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdd1 /media/hdd1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=kn oppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ cat /etc/mtab
/dev/root / ext2 rw 0 0
/ramdisk /ramdisk tmpfs rw,size=827780k,mode=755 0 0
/UNIONFS /UNIONFS aufs rw,br:/ramdisk:/KNOPPIX 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/cloop /KNOPPIX iso9660 ro 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0666 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=1000 ,gid=1000 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,umask=000,shortname=winnt,uid=1000 ,gid=1000 0 0
knoppix@Knoppix:~$ cat /proc/mounts
rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old / ext2 rw 0 0
/proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
/dev/cloop /KNOPPIX iso9660 ro 0 0
/ramdisk /ramdisk tmpfs rw 0 0
/UNIONFS /UNIONFS aufs rw,xino=/ramdisk/.aufs.xino,br:/ramdisk=rw:/KNOPPIX=ro 0 0
/proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/root.old /dev/.static/dev ext2 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask =0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=winnt 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 vfat ro,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0000,dmask =0000,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=winnt 0 0
Thanks in advance for your help.