On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 5:19 pm, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 17:14, Derek Jennings wrote: > > On Wednesday 24 Dec 2003 4:35 pm, ronald wrote: > > > Op woensdag 24 december 2003 17:28, schreef John: > > > > I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have > > > > done something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I > > > > am lost when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying > > > > anything suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. > > > > Hope this works better. > > > > Thanks > > > > John > > > > > > did you become root john? and did you cd to /etc before vi fstab? > > > > > > HTH and Merry Christmas! > > > > > > ronald > > > > If you do not like the command line and vi, then do not use it. > > > > From your KDE desktop Alt+F2 will open a box to run a command. > > He's lost X, Derek, due to the upgrade. > > Anne Ah.. well in that case I would suggest :-
Log in as root and then type urpmi mc That will install midnight commander an easy to use text based file manager with an easy built in editor. Launch it with 'mc' IMO vi is totally newbie hostile. (After 3 years of using Linux I still only know 2 vi commands.) derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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