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RE: I installed ubuntu
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Originally posted by Curtis
Whenever I try to use the mkdir command it just says access denied.
If it says that, you are not root.

There are two ways to become root -- sudo, which FineWolf suggested, will ask for your user account password and run whatever you ask it to (including an interactive shell, bash) as root.  This is the preferred way, but your user account needs to be added to /etc/sudoers for that to work.  Perhaps Ubuntu setup has done that for you (I don't use Ubuntu distribution).

The other way you can become root is the su command.  Simply type "su -" (the - tells it to load the environment profile).  Note that the password required here is your root account password, not your user password.

Although it should be obvious, you can always find out whether your efforts were successful by typing "whoami".

Other than that, FineWolf's instructions are fine -- except that your FAT32 partition isn't going to be /dev/hda0, but some other number.  It should be safe to experiment or you can run fdisk ("fdisk /dev/hda") and view the partition table.
01-23-2007 04:06 PM
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I installed ubuntu - by Curtis on 01-23-2007 at 06:40 AM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by FineWolf on 01-23-2007 at 07:07 AM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by Curtis on 01-23-2007 at 07:45 AM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by FineWolf on 01-23-2007 at 08:17 AM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by Mike on 01-23-2007 at 02:00 PM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by Curtis on 01-23-2007 at 03:09 PM
RE: RE: I installed ubuntu - by FineWolf on 01-23-2007 at 03:55 PM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by Adeptus on 01-23-2007 at 04:06 PM
RE: RE: I installed ubuntu - by FineWolf on 01-23-2007 at 04:35 PM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by Curtis on 01-24-2007 at 01:12 AM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by Hank on 01-24-2007 at 01:39 AM
RE: I installed ubuntu - by joey on 01-25-2007 at 10:13 AM
RE: RE: I installed ubuntu - by FineWolf on 01-25-2007 at 01:24 PM


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