how to set permissions

[natbeys]

i get this msg whenever i try to move any file.

error while copying to "/mnt/c:".
you do not have permissions to wrtie to this folder.

where do i set permissions?
i am in pcqlinux2004 os.

in the console type in su, this is root

then it will ask for the password

or do chmod to the mount you want premission too.

[natbeys]

[root@localhost natbeys]# chmod
chmod: too few arguments

Originally posted by natbeys
[root@localhost natbeys]# chmod
chmod: too few arguments

http://catcode.com/teachmod/

[Epyon9283]

Ok, Im going to guess that /mnt/C: is your C: drive in windows. If it is, and you're using 2000 or XP, it's probably going to be a NTFS partition. If that's true, then you can't write to it in Linux anyway. Doesn't matter what the permissions are.

correct, writing to NTFS from linux is still something that is being worked on. if its fat 32 you will have no problems

[natbeys]

how do i change the file owner?

[natbeys]

also can you tell me how do i install divx?
i tried running install.sh in terminal in my divx folder and i get this
[root@localhost natbeys]# /home/natbeys/divx4linux-20030428/install.sh
cp: cannot stat `*.so': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat `*.h': No such file or directory
chown: failed to get attributes of `/usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so': No such file or directory
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so': No such file or directory
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/local/lib/libdivxencore.so.0': No such file or directory
chown: failed to get attributes of `/usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so': No such file or directory
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so': No such file or directory
chmod: failed to get attributes of `/usr/local/lib/libdivxdecore.so.0': No such file or directory

[samwichse]

Hm... I'm unfamiliar with that distro.

In redhat/fedora, getting mplayer + divx + pretty much all windows codecs is as easy as downloading the packages at http://ftp.icm.edu.pl/pub/linux/mpla...s/mplayer.html then typing
rpm -ivh --nodeps mplayer-*

Do you have a website for pcqlinux2004?

Sam

EDIT: This answers that, and whether you can use those linked rpms:

From here:

...installing PCQLinux2004, which is a fedora core 1 based distro with some bleeding-edge features.

So those packages should work (and provide divx for more than just mplayer).

[CMonster]

make use of the manual pages:

type:

$man (command-name) for more info on command syntax and options

or type:

$info (command-name) for more user friendly feedback

file permissions use "chmod"

change owner or group use "chown"

In KDE you can do these simply by right-click/Properties/Permissions