HD Install :: hda1 and sda1 are read-only..why?

Well, I found my problem. My usb drive wasn't mounted. I guess I assumed that it was mounted automatically. "mount /dev/sda1" fixed my problem. At least until I ran out of space..... oops

Quote (j.robinson @ Sep. 20 2006,05:41)

Greetings,
I've installed to hard disk, now I want to save files there too. However I can't make a dir or save a file. Even when I attempt to change permissions I can't.

External drive on USB can be read, again not writable (I'm using emelfm).

Warning...I'm a newbie!

Regards
JR

I had the same problem mounting my hard drive after a frugal install.
I wasn't mounting the drive in read/write mode.
This command worked for me:
sudo mount -w /dev/hda6

original here.