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Originally posted by ReDRoVeR
Thanks
I found that and Im trying to do it...
I try to drag the files where they need to go and says I have no permission to do so...then that is it. I dont know how to copy files to locked directories with lilo yet.
damn it I want off my windoz machine...
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This must be the first time you have encountered a well thought out file system.
Files and directory are not "locked", they have permissions. This is not the best link but here are some
basic commands. You want to use chmod to change permissions. If you don't know how to use a command use man, i.e. man chmod, which gives you a listing of options and how to use the command. For example, if you want to make a directory and all of the files and directories inside readable, writeable, and executable: chmod -R 777 /your/dir
Typically, you will need to be root to do this and you probably don't want to do this all the time because it means everything is open to everybody.
When I used to teach, I recommended Harley Hahn's book "A Student's Guide to Unix" I would also recommend "Running Linux" (as do many others). Used copies of either work just as well as the newest edition.