Quote Originally Posted by Jameson
"Opened Disk Read Only - You Do Not Have Permission To Write"

On my laptop (a presario 2190US). I keep running into the above error, I've tried mounting/un-mouting hda1 and I've set all the permission to allow everyone to read and write on this disk but no matter what I cannot get it to install to my HD because of this.
DO NOT mount a drive prior to running the installer. The installer does this for you. You DO need a partition for Linux. Not FAT32 and not NTFS. Just create a partition and let the installer format it for you.

There is this hddinstall howto but it's very incomplete.

I thought there was a better installation document but I cannot seem to find it. Can someone else can post the link or has it fallen to the wayside like so many other docs in the wiki?