Write Protected?

[bmxface]

ok everything i try and install that doesnt have a Graphic enviroment keeps giving me this bull that my main drive is write protected /dev/hda but im not 100% positive that thats my main drives location because....why qwould my MAin HDD be WP? it does this for both Slackware and now Vector,...please help

[bmxface]

ohh sorry but the same problems accur with gentoo also....

[andutt]

Are your partitions mounted in read/write mode??

Regards

[bmxface]

io wouldnt know...im still not familiar with the linux way of partitioning and accessing my hdd

[bmxface]

and if it is ...how do i go about changing/overwriting that?

[nikhil]

wat does /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab show?

[bmxface]

[root@localhost troy]# /etc/fstab
bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied
[root@localhost troy]# /etc/mtab
bash: /etc/mtab: Permission denied

now i take it theres something wrong here

[nikhil]

do a
# cat /etc/fstab
# cat /etc/mtab

[bmxface]

[root@localhost troy]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hde1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hde6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hde5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[root@localhost troy]# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/hde1 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hde6 /home ext3 rw 0 0

there....

[nikhil]

ok, i'm stumped here. /dev/hda being write-protected us not getting mounted.
did you define it as an ext3 type or an ext2 type?
a google search gave me several hits saying this could be a filesystem type issue but i'm not sure, maybe someone else can throw somelight on this.