On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:48 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > On 17/10/10 17:34, Barry Titterton wrote:
> > > > I finally found the time to try and fix this machine but I could not get > > this to work when running from a LTS live CD: when running dpkg > > virtually every line in the terminal had "permission denied", then the > > process gave up with the message "too many errors". > > > > Can you please give me exact, "Linux for Idiots" instructions for every > > step of the operation as I am obviously not doing something right. > > > > > > I'm guessing you need to run the command as root, so put sudo in front > of each of the commands. > > Rob > I tried this and it had no effect, same errors. Should I be mounting the hard disk in a particular way or with specific modifiers? Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
