[SOLVED]Permission denied when saving tarball to /mnt/gentoo

scottneh · Last edited by scottneh on Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:38 pm; edited 1 time in total

New problem. Since I was having issues with the cd image I tried to install via the internet using Kubuntu to boot the system from the CD. I get as far as doanloading the stage 3 tarball and an error from Links saying that permission is denied when I try to save the file to /mnt/gentoo. They say to use the "sudo" command when in Kubuntu to act as the root amdinistrator and this works for most issues but still does not let be write to the directory that I want. It looks like Kubuntu logs in as a limited user and will not give any write access to the folders I create...any ideas on how to deal with this. I would rather not install Kubuntu on the hard drive and have to delete is later.

Thanks

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:01 am Post subject:

Last time I used Knoppix to install Gentoo, I needed to login as root like this.

scottneh · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 4:42 am Post subject:

I tried using the command sudo su - and it successfully logged me in as root@ubuntu but it did not change the permission denied issue. I also tried booting from Knoppix 2.86 and it gets to a root prompt but goes right into a shutdown. I currently trying to download Knoppix 3.9 to see if there is any difference.

ndse2112 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 100

http://www.sysresccd.org is always a good choice for a livecd.

You can boot it in either 32/64 bit mode, and it is gentoo based, booting it allows you to 'see' your hardware work with recent gentoo kernels as well as providing a good X11 live environment to work from.

gerard27 · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 1:29 pm Post subject:

I second that.
Nothing beats sysrescuecd.
Gerard.
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To install Gentoo I use sysrescuecd.Based on Gentoo,has firefox to browse Gentoo docs and mc to browse (and edit) files.
The same disk can be used for 32 and 64 bit installs.
You can follow the Handbook verbatim.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Download

scottneh · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:17 pm Post subject:

This worked. The rescue cd had some minor issues but I got it working and was able to download the files and save them to /mnt/gentoo!

Thanks

d2_racing · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 7:18 pm Post subject:

SystemRescueCD is the best LiveCD that I know.

cach0rr0 · Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 11:33 pm Post subject:

d2_racing · Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:21 pm Post subject:

In fact, it support ntfs3g