Jozsa

Recently i bought my ASUS Eee PC and it is my first Linux experience, and im loving it.

I'm looking to install a game onto the PC, although it wont quite fit on the computers tiny internal 4gb Flash Memory, so i would like to install it to an external 8gb USB flash drive.

Basically, i can install to the /home/user/ perfectly (but theres not enough space). However when i select to install to the USB it gave me the following errors;





I've tried many things so far, including changing permissions and ownership of the USB drive.

sudo chmod +rwxrwxrwx /home/user/cj/ (cj is the USB's name)

Then i tried;

sudo chown -R root:user /home/user/cj/

This is meant to change the owner of the USB (and all subfolders) to me, however it tells me i dont have permission to change it.

Any help would be appreciated.




I've already had some minor experiance is permissions as a Virtual Private Network Client (VPN) was in /etc/vpnc/ which i had no permission to, and i needed to put a file into that folder, and i found the following two ways around it;

sudo chmod +rwxrwxrwx /etc/vpnc/

and

sudo mv monash.conf /etc/vpnc/monash.conf





Thanks in advance.

Looking for Linux Hosting? Click Here

devils casper

Execute sudo fdisk -l command and notedown device name ( /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1) and mount point ( /media/USB or something like that).
Remount it using mount command.
Let say, /dev/sdb is device name assigned to USB Stick.
Execute this

__________________

Jozsa

Also, just to add two things;
1 - i can create, edit and delete files on the USB in the file manager, the problem is only when trying to install to it.

2 - The USB is a 4gb USB2 by DSE

Below is the my file manager and output of sudo fdisk -l;



In regards to that picture above - I have full permissions and access to the ipod, as it is owned and grouped to user.


I tried this;

But i still get this error when installing;

arubin

I suspect that problem is probably nothing to do with permissions on the USB drive.

Are you installing this as root ar as user.

If you are installing multi-user mode you will probably have to do it as root. If single user mode you might be able to do it as user.