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"Hear is the deal," after more time researching the inability to write to a flash drive I have found some more material. "New external partitions. Formatting a new partition with ext4 requires root permissions, which can lead to unexpected or undesired result of the regular user not b...

Thank you both Diapason and AndyMH for the important
comments. I am archiving this thread. :<)

Beside not spelling flash correctly, I did find an additional
link that I think may prove to be very useful.

http://www.linuxandubuntu.com/home/basi ... ermissions

Diapason, a most learned post. Yes, within several days I set up Timeshift but never thought about placing it on it's own partition. I thought about a DVD with Clonezilla but that maybe to restrictive, considering the capacity of 4.7 GB. I saw but did not read about DEJA-dup and was going to study i...

BTW. I do know of Montevideo MN because often, if I don't put Montevideo Uruguay in my web searches. I end up in MN Grrrrrr! :) :) :) :) Those Damm Yankees. :!: :!: The German Navy had to scuttle one of it's fine pocket battleship there, the Admiral Graf Spee. :cry: :cry: I have some many flash dri...

Diapason, I monkeyed with it before and changed the permission for all others not to be able to write but not for me. I more than likely screwed it up. :oops: :oops: There must be a command to set the all of the permissions back to default. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249845/reset-permi...

Something not quite right there. From what you say everything is in the right place and it should just work as I said. The copy and paste should be just as you are used to (CTRL+C and CTRL+V) or via the right click menu options. Drag and drop is just that. Put your mouse pointer over the file or fo...

I've not had any problem with my LM20 install and USB's. Did you format it using that computer? This link explains using the Disks utility to format a USB [SOLVED] Cannot mount memory stick . Maybe something in that thread will help. Tanks, SMG, but it is being recognized by the rig. Also, I did us...

Could this be the issue


blueice@blueice-GA-970A-UD3:~$ fdisk -l
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sda: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdb: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdc: Permission denied
fdisk: cannot open /dev/sdh: Permission denied

When you plug your pen drive into the computer, does it mount? (ie do you see it on your desktop or in the Devices List in File Manager? If you can see the drive, can you open it and see its contents? (The contents may even have been displayed automatically when you mounted the drive If you can see...

After spending nearly two hours trying to find an answer, I now have to thread. All I wish to do in my Mint 20, is to place such items as; documents, pictures and files on a thumb drive [pen drive], as they are called. Seriously, it was so simple to do in MicroGates, however, in Linux it is an absol...

I tried the same procedure above in Mint 20 and it did not work.

Have you ever wonder what the difference is between these two formats are :?: This is an excellent review of the two applications. Which one is for you :?: Take a look and decide. Lots of pictures to aid in forming an opinion. :arrow: https://www.fosslinux.com/42787/linux-mint-cinnamon-vs-mate.htm#c...

if you are an resident of CONUSA then you could try using: https://www.shoplinuxonline.com/ where they have LM20... Pierre, that was the website mentioned by the original poster. Have you used them? I discovered them a few weeks ago, and I too was curious to know if they were "authorized,"...

Nope - - not personally .. I've only ever bought from eBay as an rule. but, there is not that many alternatives, that you can obtain pre-made Linux Media. that CONUSA ? is the Continental United States of America - as opposed to North America, which can include Canada & Mexico . . :) Pierre, we...

I had been reading this thread having similar issues. :arrow: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=251998 I went to the driver manager and clicked the open source [nouveau driver] and rebooted and got no error message, however, the driver manager box added a fourth choice [which it ...

On one of the download drivers I read the "read me." It gave a link were to get the drivers [per Epson] and the website had no traffic. http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/index.html They do have a call center in fornia but only for Mr Softie and Mac OSs. If you have others you are out of...

[quote=brian_p post_id=1878997 time=1599065370 user_id=2463 Scanning on LInux requires a SANE backend (driver); scangearmp2 does not provide any such backend. Therefore, simple-scan hasn't anything to work with and reports No scanners available. Please connect a scanner . See https://wiki.debian.org...

I tried yesterday again to install the needed drivers, spending another two or three hours. I add sane to the mix and nothing worked on the four different scanner software. In addition, I got an error message, stating four dependences were missing. I am now in the process of installing an insane dri...

I messed up the OS by trying to transfer it to another HDD. I had to reinstall Mint and once again the IPv4 changed to [172], however, this time there was no issue with connecting to the Internet. Apparently, the SATA cables going to the HDDs had nothing to do with this. I am now thinking there was ...

I think it would be best to wait for someone who knows more about that than I do. Meanwhile, have a look here: https://devopspoints.com/linux-mint-setting-up-a-static-ip.html Sleeper, thanks for the link. :mrgreen: Now this is very strange. I changed out the HDD SATA cable and attached the one whic...