No Write Access though doing the probably right things

[knoppixer]

Hi!

After installing knoppix onto my hd and doing some settings I wanted to get write access for my FAT32-drive hda5.
Following the instruction I mounted hda5 by clicking the icon on the desktop. Then I did "change r/w permissions" which can be found in the context menu of the icon.
But this action had *absolutely no* effect, though it should have one, shouldn't it? Still a message appeared which told me that it is not possible to write, when trying to delete/create/edit a file on hda5.

Please *do* help me.

Knoppixer

[rickenbacherus]

Try mounting your drives like this:

sudo mount -o rw /dev/hdx?

Or, if it's already mounted:

sudo mount -o remount,rw /dev/hdx?

[knoppixer]

I will try that later on.
But whoes failure would it be, if your solution were correct, what it actually can be ?

[rickenbacherus]

I will try that later on.
But whoes failure would it be, if your solution were correct, what it actually can be ?

Well ya see.....i almost never even see my desktop but when I do there's redhead I'd rather see than icons.

[knoppixer]

Thanks to you! It even worked the next reboot without doing anything.