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Originally posted by Adeptus

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Originally posted by Curtis
Whenever I try to use the mkdir command it just says access denied.

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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.

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The Ubuntu distrib does it fact adds your account to the sudoers list. So in this case, sudo is the way to go. Also, Adaptus is right about the /dev/hda0 ... I provided an example above and it's there only to guide you. That device handle will change. You can use the fdisk command or the bundled GParted application to find out which device handle corresponds to your partition.