[Gllug] Discovery Day

Fri Nov 11 10:06:20 UTC 2005

On Fri 11 Nov, David Reed wrote:
> 
>  In the end, 
> I disconnected the two legacy hard drives and decided to install Ubuntu 
> 5.10 for 64 bit on the SATA disk alongside XP. That worked okay, except 
> that I could only read the contents of  the Windows directories, not 
> write to them, which is, apparently, the default arrangement.

   I have not used Ubuntu, but it is very similar to Debian. Debian assumes
multiple users accessing the computer at any time, so security is important
and the default is often secure, forcing you to RTFM rather than leaving
everything insecure and the administrator oblivious.
   Log in as root, check /etc/fstab to ensure the drives are not mounted ro,
and use "vigr" (a specialised editor similar to vi) to amend the access
permissions listed in the file /etc/group

-- 
Chris Bell

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