On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Eric Bambach wrote:
What Ray means is to type in these commands at a console. In KDE you can look for the program konsole. This will give you a command console similiar to a DOS command prompt (But infinitely more powerful ;). You have to do these as the root user. That means when you open the (c/k)onsole, you must type 'su' and it will ask you for the root password that you specified at install time. If you lack konsole, all distributions will let you push CTRL-ALT-F1 and you will get a raw login console. Username root and your password will let you then type in the commands Ray Specified. Furthermore, lacking konsole, you can try the program 'xterm' for the same results. Remeber to type these as the root user or you lack enough permissions to get things done!
To clarify yet further, "console" means something very similar to what Windows users call a "DOS box." In other words, under start>programs
accessories on a Windows system there will be an item "C:\ prompt" orsomething like that (location of the program's shortcut varies according to Windows version). When you click that item, a window opens up with a black background and a command prompt like C:\_<blinking cursor here where you can type some DOS command like "dir">. In Linux, a "console" or "xterm" works very similarly. It is a place to type commands to get info about the system (as in Ray's suggestion), run or compile programs and perform other user or administrative functions.
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