How do get permission to add files to the root directory? Or, how do I find the C:/ Drive?

Well...we have two questions here...

1. To add files to the root directory, you need to be logged in as root. Typically the permissions set to the root directory are as follows:

drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 2006-01-03 13:06 .

This means that root owns the root directory, and everyone has read and execute permissions to it. In order for you to get access to it you will need to be root.

2. For the C:\ directory, you first need to know where it is located in relation to the partitions on the system. You may be able to tell which partition it is by the size and by looking at /proc/partitions. Once you know which partition it happens to be (say /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1), you can then mount it to a location. For instance, the following would mount a FAT32 partition in linux:

$ mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/c-drive

This would mount the partition /dev/hda1 to the mount location /mnt/c-drive. You will need root permissions in order to do this as well.

If your C: drive is an NTFS partition, it is possible to mount that drive as well:

$ mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/c-drive

Understand that you can only mount NTFS drives read-only.

Easy way is to run File Manager in super user mode.

You can add an icon to the desktop to run this:

konqueror --profile filemanagement

It will prompt you for the root password before it runs.

Note that any files or directories you create will belong to root an you may need to change their permissions (even in your normal-user home directory).

It gives me this error when I try that.

[CODE]Details: Failed to execute child process "konqueror" (No such file or directory)[CODE]

Are you running KDE? I assumed (possibly wrongly) that you were.

Try running that command from a shell. Try it as root. If it works then add kdesu in front of the command OR add yourselt to the sudo group.

Hope this helps.

Im running gnome.