root is denied the ability to change permissions?

[Dennis Calhoun]

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 10:46:04 +0800, you wrote:

>Use
>
>$ man mount
>
>and find the section of vfat mount options.

That is basically the same thing I just addresses. It is all foreign
to me. What I need is someone to speak plain ENGLISH to me, instead of
all these Linux specific tech terms that are of no meaning to this
newbie who is not a programmer.

Dennis C. <-- is getting way beyond frustrated at TRYING to figure
Linux out.