Unpacking files=Cannot mkdir: Read-only file system
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Unpacking files=Cannot mkdir: Read-only file system
Hello
I´m have a susex installation and I´m a total newbie. I have also a windows installation on my hard disk. In windows mode I have downloaded a few programs that I would like to use with my linux. They have the file endings *.tar or *.tar.tar or *tar.gz
So they shoud unpacked, i go in shell command and type:
tar -xvzf *.tar.gz
for every program I get the same error message:
Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
Cannot mkdir: Read-only file system
prineted over and over together with different filenames...
I have a NTSF windows file system, maybe linux can´t use that?
looking forward for any help:-)
maybe I can start up the programs with out the shell, or there is a more user friendly shell interface?
From what I have read, writing to a NTFS file system support is still experimental. I believe that you can write to NTFS but don't be surprised if it doesn't work. I'm not sure how to do this you would probably need to re-compile your kernel or load extra modules into your kenel. I'm still a noob, so if anyone has suggestion/comments on how to do this?, and how good is the write access for NTFS?
yes I also tried to save my error loggs in to a txt file to bring back to windows and to seach the internet. But also this I could not save on my hard disk. But then I tried with a floppy and it went allright.
Hmmmm....
The strange thing is that the installaton ran totally without any problems on the NTSF file system....
Distribution: SUSE 9.1 Pro and Debian Testing on Server
Posts: 469
Rep:
You should always put a FAT32 partition on your hard disk as well as NTFS. (Just to let u know, it is not NTSF, it stands for New Technology File System). Linux can write to a FAT32 partition perfectly.
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