OK, maybe I'm a n00b, but i can't make this work.
On the newest DSL i can't write on ntfs after starting the os from live cd. I can read but not write?
Is it possible to write in the live cd session? it would be so great since dsl live is so small and easy to use.

help appreciated. great forum site btw.

You should be able to write to either a USB thumbdrive or your hard drive. Have you mounted the drive you want to write to?

yes it is mounted, but it says it is read only when i try to delete something. i tried to bypass that using a command, but then it said that i didn't have the correct permissions.... maybe i should just use xubuntu or knoppix or something like that...
its just i like dsl and would like to run the livecd and be able to do everything with ntfs file systems (write, read and so on)

ok I can read ntfs running the dsl live cd. how to write...? anyone?

anyone?........

Sorry, I don't usually run from the live cd, as I have a frugal install on my old Pentium II's hard drive. So I tried to figure it out on my Windows desktop running from the live cd, and I couldn't get it to write to the HDA1 either. Maybe there's a cheat code you can enter at boot?

ok thats to bad, I guess I'll just use the xubuntu live cd then. or the ubuntu one...

c ya

I believe you have to be root to write in live mode. Also...make sure you mount the drive read/right:

# mount -w -t ntfs /dev/yourdrive /mnt/yourdrive

Since my last post, I've learned more, and I've run into this problem as well. Here's the workaround I use:

At first, when I was in Emelfm and I wanted to write to a "read-only" Windows share, I'd go down to the command line and type something like sudo cp /home/dsl/filename /home/dsl/mnt/WindowsShare/filename.

It works, but it's time-consuming.

Then I discovered that you can create custom buttons in Emelfm.

So, I created "SuperUser" versions of the common functions such as Copy, Move, Rename, and Delete. I'm not in front of my DSL box right now, so I'm going from memory. I believe the way to do it is to right-click on any file and select the Change user commands option. From there you can create new buttons. If you try but need some help, I can post a better walk-through.

Word of warning: I accidentally deleted most of my office's shared drive by being a little over-zealous in my use of the "SUDO" command. I hadn't unmounted the share first before I did a sudo rmdir /home/dsl/mnt/WindowsShare command. Luckily the IT department was able to restore from one of their periodic backups, but I still lost a lot of my archived email.

SUDO can be a dangerous weapon, and the experience really made me appreciate Windows' constant "Are you SURE you REALLY want to do that?" messages. Linux is very unforgiving of mistakes, because it assumes the user knows what they're doing.