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Gentoo install problem

#1 User is offline   hunter_da_punter 

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Posted 13 December 2003 - 01:52 PM

i was installing gentoo the other day and the install went well up to the point i had to install the boot grub and i had to make the .conf boot on the ex2 boot partition but i kept geting a read-only access when i was trying to write to the partition using nano
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Posted 13 December 2003 - 06:03 PM

i can oppen the /boot/grub/grub.conf but i cant write to the partition using nano for some strange reason
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Posted 13 December 2003 - 07:23 PM

A wild quess on this one. Are you root user when attempting to write to this file?
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Posted 21 December 2003 - 04:31 AM

yeah i was using root but it was under the root given by the install of gentoo
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