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from step 14:

I input:

ln -s /media/mmc1/raData /usr/share/games/freera/data

and it spat back:

ln: /usr/share/games/freera/data/raData: Operation not permitted

???

maybe you should be root:
sudo gainroot
ln -s /media/mmc1/raData /usr/share/games/freera/data

does it work?

I typed in

sudo gainroot

it replied: Root shell enabled

I already had that enabled before I tried step 14.

In other words, yeah, I'm logged in as root, but it still doesn't work.

Sounds like the directory 'data' exists. Try-
sudo gainroot
rmdir /usr/share/games/freera/data
ln -s /media/mmc1/raData /usr/share/games/freera/data

If that doesn't work, post back.

cheers,
kernelpanic

rmdir /usr/share/games/freera/data

replies:
rmdir: '/usr/share/games/freera/data': Not a directory

So if it's not a directory, then you already have a symlink or another file there.

You have mentioned symlinks often. I don't know how to create them or what they are. Telling me "you already have a symlink or another file there." doesn't help.

Where is the "there" you mention?

If there is a symlink there or another file, what should I do with it?

EDIT: I'm on step 19 with the game running. I will try and get the game data files in place and post back

3xternal, I did my write up based on the assumption that you were going from having NOTHING installed (no previous attempts) to a full install. It definately sounds like you already have a symbolic link in place that you'll need to get rid of. A symbolic link is simply the Linux equivalent to a shortcut (well, it's more complicated than that, but from a theoretical point of view that's the easiest way to think of it).
You give it a name (in this case "data"), and it targets/points to somewhere else (in this case the "raData" directory on your MMC); then, you can access/read/cd/etc to that target, you can do so simply by refering to the symbolic link. In this scenario, any time RA tries to read from the /usr/share/games/freera/data directory, it will automatically end up reading from /media/mmc1/raData.

A symbolic link is considered a "file" by the file system (even if it targets a directory like the one we're using here), so to remove it you simply need to use the remove file command:
rm /usr/share/games/freera/data

if it gives you an error, just be a bit more "forceful" in telling it that you want to get rid of whatever the heck data is, like this:

rm -rf /usr/share/games/freera/data

That will "force remove recursively" anything that is /usr/share/games/freera/data, whether it be link, directory, file, etc

Once that's done, you can try step 14 again and it should work without problem.

The game is now running fine in full mode using the directory you told me to remove. Ah well, it works. I'm happy. Thanks for your assistance!

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