permission denied
 

hi i recently installed unbuntu 8.10 desktop version i am have permission denied on most commands and im unable to slave my 160 gig internal drive i am VERY new to linux plz help me

try to use
Commands for system maintenance can only be executed as root.

still wont mount my drive =`(

my brother in law got it to do it temporarily by doin like sudo mount disk or sudo mount drive
but its not working for me and i am unable to get ahold of him

what command are you using?
Is the drive recognized
what is the output from
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its recognized but says unable to mount in details it says unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library, ethier mount volume as root, or rebuild ntfs-3g with intgrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. please see more inormation at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

none
 

it says i have no permission to do almost anything in the terminal

Then you need to use the sudo command

something like