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jaygeetiny:
Using the set-up shown in my signature, the phrase "chown: /mnt/sda1/tce: Operation not permitted" follows immediately after the last listed installed .tce on the bootscreen.

This has happened in tc1.0 and tc1.1; in each case at the first boot following entry of "tce=sda1" as a boot parameter and on subsequent boots when "tce=sda1" is omitted.

Everything seems to work fine but presumably the message indicates a problem.

roberts:
The cause is likely that  your sda1 i not formatted to support permissions.

jaygeetiny:
Thanks for that lead.

My sda1 is a FAT32 formatted 4GB USB stick and it seems that "You can't modify permissions on a FAT filesystem. You can give the whole system default permissions when you mount it though, using the umask option to mount, which you can also throw in your  /etc/fstab file. Try (replace XXX with your user is and group id): /dev/hda1  /winc  vfat  uid=XXX,gid=XXX  0 0"

Using sudo has worked so far and being the sole user I'll soldier on until the problem has to be fixed.

As this question hasn't cropped up in the four or five other distros I've used on FAT32 formatted USB sticks maybe it'll be a non-issue.

mikshaw:

--- Quote ---this question hasn't cropped up in the four or five other distros
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That's not surprising.  TC is a special breed, including features not available in your typical distro.  One such feature is the ability of the regular user add more applications to the tce directory as he choses, regardless of what username you boot with.  In order to accomplish this, the directory is chowned during initialization.

Juanito:

--- Quote from: jaygeetiny on February 12, 2009, 04:54:23 AM ---My sda1 is a FAT32 formatted 4GB USB stick and it seems that "You can't modify permissions on a FAT filesystem.

--- End quote ---

After a lot of grief with this issue, I swapped to using ext2 formatted usb sticks for dsl a couple of years back and now use the same thing for tc.

You can use extlinux (tc extension exists) to create the exact analogy of an isolinux boot and the freeware ext2 drivers for windows (should they be required) allow you to read write to the usb stick without problems.

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