Hi,

Well, I have Mandrake 8.1 installed now, with the help of previous replies. Many thanks.

I typed a letter using Abiword and when I saved it, it ended up on the desktop of my home page, Konquerer. I went to the Konsole and tried to create a directory to put the letter in but 'mkdir' gave me a reply 'access denied'. (Konsole show my name as the local host).

So how do I save my letters, please?

Incidentally, I bought a book given a glowing reference at Linux.org and found it was good at telling me what Linux could do but very bad at telling me how to do it.

Cheers,


Blotch

odd thing to get...

check the rights of mkdir:

[chris@trevor chris]$ ls -l /bin/mkdir
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 15400 Mar 30 2001 /bin/mkdir*

if you don't get that output, use:

chmod a+x /bin/mkdir

as root, should be fine then... unless you're trying to make a directory outside of your user area, in which case that's BAD! naughty naughty!

Acid_kewpie,

Hi! You've over-estimated my intelligence and understanding of Linux - easy enough to do under any circumstances.

So, may I go back a step? Say I've typed out a letter and printed it successfully and am sitting looking at it on screen. I want to save it in a directory called 'Trees'. What do I click on, or what keys do I press, to save it? And what should happen?


cheers,


Blotch

ok, as a user, you can only make directories inside your user area, e.g. /home/blotch/ you should be able to make directories there fine

Acid_Kewpie,

Re previous thread, 'saving my letters'.

I'm happily creating directories and saving my stuff very well, now.

Thanks greatly for your help.


Blotch