Well I'm stuck on Ubuntu Live CD til tomorrow. Waiting on my 3rd SATA drive to get here tomorrow. Then I'm going back to XP to install it on a SATA RAID-0 x3. Might break 300MB/sec buffered read .
But still this is the BEST feature of Ubuntu. The live cd. You could setup an OS on a system with no hard drive. As long as you keep it running, you're fine. I love how you can even install apps without a hard drive. It just stores them in ram somehow? I've been running the live cd for hours, installing mp3 support, flash, gmail notify, tweaked tons of settings, configured gaim, and I'm playing music from pandora.com. Ubuntu is the absolute best disc to have when Windows breaks and you need an OS ASAP. But why wont it let me write to my USB drives?
You mounted the drive and gave it public access right? If it mounted on its own once being plugged in it might be the format of the pen drive.
The only Windows file system formats that can be written too are FAT16 and FAT32. NTFS can't be, but pen drives usually aren't in NTFS. Though lately I've noticed these new pendrives with some supposed advanced file system shit being used. Annoying thing about it is it installs drivers on windows machines upon plugging them into the damn computer... stupid pieces of crap.
Anyways, what I'm getting to is check the file system format of the thing and make sure Linux can even write to it.
lordofduct wrote:You mounted the drive and gave it public access right? If it mounted on its own once being plugged in it might be the format of the pen drive.
The only Windows file system formats that can be written too are FAT16 and FAT32. NTFS can't be, but pen drives usually aren't in NTFS. Though lately I've noticed these new pendrives with some supposed advanced file system shit being used. Annoying thing about it is it installs drivers on windows machines upon plugging them into the damn computer... stupid pieces of crap.
Anyways, what I'm getting to is check the file system format of the thing and make sure Linux can even write to it.
Ubuntu's explorer is broken. I cant open any folders or touch the desktop, and I dont feel like restarting tonight and losing my settings and shit I installed. Don't worry about it. I tried earlier. The partition tool cant even format usb drives of any sort. It's probably just the live cd causing this.
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