permissions problems

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Hello I’m a newbe I need some help. I just installed debian and I need to install ndiswrapper. But some of the problems I am having is I cant write to the file system or change permissions. I’m not shore I’m a admin or what! So how do I change permissions and install ndiswrapper?

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permissions problems

Submitted by pinniped on Fri, 2007-09-14 17:19.

First you need to log in as "root". You can do this by switching to virtual console 1: [ctl][alt][F1] , type in 'root' for the user then enter your password for root.

To get back to the GUI it's [alt][F7].

If you have a text console running in the GUI and 'su' is installed, you can get the required priviledges with:

su
(password)

and when you're done just type 'exit'

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