Re: Question on Xandros

Well, found part of an answer... seems as since Asus sends em out with the
basic desktop (which I can explain better at the 'meeting' tomorrow when I
bring the laptop along) you aren't *supposed* to be able to save to desktop,
just external.

Most of us on that forum have switched over to a normal kde desktop
environment, and quite a lot on there have installed another flavour of
linux.

So that's not a question of format as much as it is of what asus modified in
xandros to send em out with the basic desktop.

On Dec 11, 2007 7:17 AM, Tony Arkles <tony@intrex.ca> wrote:

>
> On 10-Dec-07, at 11:17 PM, vampyre wolf wrote:
>
> Since every computer I work on other than my own is running windows, I
> format my cards/usb/eternal HD as fat32... didn't know that wouldn't save
> permissions on it.
>
>
> Yeah, the only permissions that FAT32 really has is "read-only" or not.
>
> Still doesn't explain why I can't save the settings on my system. Not
> sure what the default format is for xandros, it's on the charger right now.
>
>
> Hmm... I don't have a good answer to that...
>
>
>
> On Dec 10, 2007 7:28 PM, Tony Arkles <tony@intrex.ca> wrote:
>
> > Sorry if I missed this question earlier: do you know what filesystem is
> > on it? If it is FAT32, then it won't save permissions, and if it is NTFS,
> > then your kernel may not have write support.
> >
> > On 10-Dec-07, at 10:40 AM, vampyre wolf wrote:
> >
> > ok... wasn't able to find fstab...
> >
> > used chmod 777 to give me read/write access, though I still can't set
> > ownership of it to user. Currently moving over a music folder to it without
> > a problem from a different flash drive.
> >
> > Bigger problem right now is that it doesn't save settings or files....
> > almost like it thinks it's a live cd. I can modify my permissions, yet when
> > I reboot it all defaults.
> >
> > Pulling my hair out here, would like to keep the xandros install, but
> > I'm tempted to go ubuntu on here too.
> >
> > On Dec 10, 2007 9:51 AM, Dave Hall <dave-slg@dnh.sk.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > Does Xandros have selinux included/enabled? That's one thing that
> > > could
> > > result in a non-obvious permissions problem.
> > >
> > > If you have selinux, you should be able to do the following:
> > >
> > > 'ls -Z' should show security context of files.
> > >
> > > 'id' and 'sudo id' should display your user and root security
> > > contexts.
> > >
> > > Here's a little more explanation of what some of this stuff means:
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/getting_started_with_SELinux/SELinux_overview.html
> > >
> > > Takes a bit to wrap your head around but once you do, it makes sense.
> > >
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Received on Tue Dec 11 07:41:38 2007