Permission denied during rpm installation

[Patrick Doyle]

This doesn't answer your question ("What went wrong?"), but when I
wanted access to my NTFS, I found the following at
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#ntfs

$ wget http://www.fedorafaq.org/samples/yum.conf
$ sudo mv /etc/yum.conf /etc/yum.conf.orig
$ sudo cp -i yum.conf /etc
$ sudo rpm -Uvh http://www.fedorafaq.org/yum
http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
$ sudo yum install kmod-ntfs

Once I did that, I was able to

$ sudo mount -t ntfs -oro,uid=1000,gid=1000 /dev/hda1 /c

Oh yeah, if you don't have "sudo" set up on your system, you can
change all of the commands that read:

    sudo this that

to read

    su -c "this that"

--wpd