Using knoppix I get permission denied for device

[Alma J Wetzker]

Joel Hammer wrote:
> 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.

I didn't think /dev/hd? could be mounted.  I thought you needed a partition 
with some sort of format in order to see it as a mountable partition.  I know 
when you run lilo or grub you can put the loader in the mbr of the drive 
(/dev/hd?), but I don't think you can mount it directly.

     -- Alma