Installing Permissions;
 

Recently i bought my ASUS Eee PC and it is my first Linux experience, and im loving it.

I'm looking to install a game onto the PC, although it wont quite fit on the computers tiny internal 4gb Flash Memory, so i would like to install it to an external 8gb USB flash drive.

Basically, i can install to the /home/user/ perfectly (but theres not enough space). However when i select to install to the USB it gave me the following errors;

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I've tried many things so far, including changing permissions and ownership of the USB drive.

sudo chmod -R /home/user/cj/ (cj is the USB's name)

This successfully changes permissions recursively for the USB and all subfolders and files, however i makes no difference on the install.

Then i tried;

sudo chown -R /home/user/cj/

This is meant to change the owner of the USB to me, however it tells me i dont have permission to change it.

Any help would be appreciated.




I've already had some minor experiance is permissions as a Virtual Private Network Client (VPN) was in /etc/vpnc/ which i had no permission to, and i needed to put a file into that folder, and i found the following two ways around it;

sudo chmod +rwxrwxrwx /etc/vpnc/

and

sudo mv monash.conf /etc/vpnc/monash.conf





Thanks in advance.

Can you write to the USB drive? Is there a write-protect switch on the USB stick?

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Yus. The USB is free to be edited n shiz.

Could you try from the command line creating a folder within your usb root directory, giving that all the read write permissions (chmod 777) and see if you can install to that?

What filesystem does it use? - Post "fdisk -l" here. Permissions wont work on win filesystems.

did you try single user mode, as suggested? what's the fs type of the drive? the problem might be with sudo. for systemwide installation change to root. re-run the program, as the error message suggested as well.

good luck, vadkutya

I have given up on it :(

but just for interest or if you think you can help me, here is another forum with the same thread that i made;
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...rmissions.html

Its got more info on it than this thread.

I now suspect that problem is probably nothing to do with permissions on the USB drive.

Are you installing this as root ar as user.

If you are installing multi-user mode you will probably have to do it as root. If single user mode you might be able to do it as user.