newbie needs help [solved]

[Guest robert44ht5]

Hi, I am lost on doing this. I downloaded new levels for a game and it says to copy the folder to the games folder. I have the games folder on the other partition and when I try to copy, it gives me an error like "access denied" . How can I gain access to write new files to this folder. I have tried all I can think of such as SU, folder permissions and am lost. Please help.

[Greg2]

I have the games folder on the other partition and when I try to copy, it gives me an error like "access denied" .

What and where is the other partition? Please post the output of

fdisk -l

and

cat /etc/fstab

[Guest robert44ht5]

Bash did not recognize fdisk.

Here is the output for the second command:

 

bash: fdisk: command not found

[rob@dhcppc0 ~]$ cat /etc/fstab

/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=utf8,sy nc 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[rob@dhcppc0 ~]$

 

hdb1 is the drive that contains the games folder I am trying to access. Thanx much for responding.

[spinynorman]

Bash did not recognize fdisk.

Try

 

su
[root password]
fdisk -l

[Guest robert44ht5]

LOL... ty

 

[root@dhcppc0 rob]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15505 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *		   1	   15505   117217768+   7  HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/hdb: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7753 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *		   1		6432	48625888+  83  Linux
/dev/hdb2			6433		7753	 9986760	5  Extended
/dev/hdb5			6433		6758	 2464528+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hdb6			6759		7753	 7522168+  83  Linux
[root@dhcppc0 rob]#

[spinynorman]

It seems as though you just need to change the permissions on the folder. If you're using KDE, paste and run this in a terminal:

 

kdesu 'kfmclient openProfile filemanagement'

Enter the root password when prompted. Navigate to the games folder and right click on it. Select Properties then the Permissions tab. You can change the User and Group ownership if you're the only user; or change the permissions for Others to modify content, as necessary. Also check the 'Apply changes to all sub-folders and their contents' option.

[Guest robert44ht5]

That was it! Thank you so much. You all were awesome. I will repay the debt someday when I gather enough knowledge to do so.

[spinynorman]

That was it! Thank you so much. You all were awesome. I will repay the debt someday when I gather enough knowledge to do so.

We'll hold you to that! ;)