On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 10:08:05PM -0500, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: > Try doing an su. When I used Knoppix some months ago I found even > though I was supposed to have booted into root I had to run su to be > able to do things root can do. I did this. There was no change in the error: /dev/hda Permission denied.