well, im guessing u are trying to "chmod" the scripts right?AFAIK, u will need a ".sh" extension on the filename..

eg: chmod +x /home/user/archlinux/archlinux.sh

?

i dunno man..if it's script, then i guess it should include .sh..let's hope for the experts to help yaa.. =)

Fine. Then you must exit the root shell, before you run ./chrootarch

Well, it seems the chrootarch script is intended to be run as non-root, and so uses sudo. So, you should not run it as root.

thanks one1002.

okay how do i non-root myself after going in root?

just type exit..

now it says "chrootarch" not found.. ahh how i wish i had more knowledge on utilizing x terminal! okay, here's what i did:

sudo gainroot
cd /home/user/archlinux
chmod +x /home/user/archlinux/archlinux
chmod +x /home/user/archlinux/chrootarch
chmod +x /home/user/archlinux/startarch
exit
./chrootarch

after typing "./chrootarch", it said chrootarch not found..

Type this again after typing "exit", before typing "./chrootarch":

cd /home/user/archlinux

When you use sudo gainroot, and then change the directory with the cd command, the directory change doesn't carry over to the non-root shell you started with. So if you start at /home/user (shows us as ~ in terminal when you're non-root), then sudo gainroot, then cd to, say /blah/whatever/blahblah, then exit, you'll "exit" back at /home/user.

That's what's happening here. When you cd to /home/user/archlinux as root, you end up exiting root at wherever you started (default being /home/user on the N900).

So you can either run the first "cd /home/user/archlinux" before "sudo gainroot", or run "cd /home/user/archlinux" again after "exit".

BTW, you don't have to keep running the chmod commands anymore - if they worked once, and you haven't deleted those files since then, or overwritten them, the permissions (that's what chmod does - changes permissions) should remain set.

okay now that worked! thank you Mentalist! if you don't mind, can you help me on this part:


Code:

sudo cp /home/user/MyDocs/wmctrl /.archlinux/usr/bin
rm /home/user/MyDocs/wmctrl
cd archlinux
./chrootarch
cd /usr/bin
chmod +x wmctrl
touch /usr/bin/archlinux-e17
chmod +x /usr/bin/archlinux-e17
nano /usr/bin/archlinux-e17

copy this:

Code:

#!/bin/sh
#archlinux gui
cd /home/user/archlinux
./archlinux

up to the "nano /usr/bin/archlinux-e17", it launched the nano text editor. after typing in the code, i don't know how to copy it. how do i copy that code?

Not sure what you mean by "copy". After you've typed that code into the file that opens when you run the "nano /usr/bin/archlinux-e17", just save the resulting file. As I understand it, the directions you're following are just telling you to take the text:
and then create a file /usr/bin/archilinux-e17 with those lines of code inside it. So when nano opens, just type those four lines of code in, and save the file.

ohh okay. to save the file i have to press Ctrl X right? the next step requires me to make a closearch file:

Make a closearch file

open a new xterminal and type this

Code:

sudo gainroot
cd /usr/bin
touch closearch
chmod +x closearch
nano closearch

Copy this
Code:

#!/bin/sh
# By Juand
sudo qumount /.archlinux

the problem i'm facing now is that whenever i type "nano closearch", it will say "nano: not found" instead of launching the nano text editor. how do i make that closearch file?

Hmmm... Well, it actually sounds like your command line isn't able to find the "nano" command for some reason - it sees the file, just doesn't see the program itself. I'm really not sure why that would be, assuming you're sure you typed everything correctly. Unless for some reason nano got uninstalled, or had it's binary renamed or deleted/moved? *Shrug* What do
and
give as output?