Usbdisk

[Tango Down]

I've tried to install a linux game called alien invasion several times on to a USBDISK, and every time it suddenly turns into a read-online file system about a tenth of the way through the install. I have no idea why, but the terminal suddenly starts spouting. Could not install to /media/usbdisk//base/blah(name of file) because it is a read only file system. I am in ubuntu when I try and do this. Could it be because I am not root? The sudo command does not seem to change the outcome one way or the other. Any ideas? I don't think I can install from the failsafe terminal, as the installer is a GUI.

 

[donkey42]

try running as root

su

then run the game installer

 

[kenji san]

I've tried to install a linux game called alien invasion several times on to a USBDISK, and every time it suddenly turns into a read-online file system about a tenth of the way through the install. I have no idea why, but the terminal suddenly starts spouting. Could not install to /media/usbdisk//base/blah(name of file) because it is a read only file system. I am in ubuntu when I try and do this. Could it be because I am not root? The sudo command does not seem to change the outcome one way or the other. Any ideas? I don't think I can install from the failsafe terminal, as the installer is a GUI.

The way to run the installer as root:

1] "run command" from the main system menu (K menu in KDE, not sure which menu it is in Gnome) or Alt+F2
2] type "kdesu /path/to/installer/name-of-installer" in KDE or
"gtksu /path/to/installer/name-of-installer" in gnome.
3] system will prompt for root passwd

This should get you past the read-only problem.