Re: [Sheflug] linux device problems...

[Will Newton <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 03 Jan 2002 2:56 pm, you wrote:
> First, when I try to save anything in hda2 (the windows partition), I
> get a message 'access denied.' I can read files, but not write them. I
> am using the root account, and I thought I could do anything I wanted
> with root, but it would appear not. Anyway, I did an ls -a for hda2, and
> got the following :
> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 8192 Jan1 1970 hda2
> I tried to do a 'chmod 777 hda2' and got the message :
> hda2 is a read only device.

The disk is mounted read-only. To change this look in /etc/fstab. In the 
"options" field for that mount point there may be "ro" short for read-only. 
Chnage this to "rw" and you should be OK. BUT. If you are using a version of 
Windows that is based on NTFS (e.g. 2000 or XP) then you are not advised to 
do this. NTFS support is rather, er, interesting, when writing to disk. It 
can be done, but needs extra special care. The reasons for it being in such a 
broken state are rather historical and it is improving.

This is the chat script, the others are related config files, I must confess 
to knowing bugger all about kppp. :)

> etc/ppp/ppp.chat.to :
> TIMEOUT 5
> ABORT "NO CARRIER"
> ABORT BUSY
> ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
> ABORT ERROR
> "" +++ ATZ
> OK AT&F
> OK ATX3
> OK ATDT0191011

This is the dial command, the phone number is wrong so this may be the 
problem. The filename does not look like it is the chatscript you are using 
though, try looking in /etc/chatscripts (if it exists), it's where my 
chatscripts are.
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