On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 17:18 +0000, Ian W. Wright wrote: > Hi, > > I have an automatic install of Ubuntu EMC2 on one computer which has two > partitions on the drive - a /boot and a /swap. I would like to put in a > second drive on which I already have a windows XP installation and make > the machine dual booting with Ubuntu as the default. However, I am not > sure how to configure it to do so. I thought it would just be a simple > matter of altering the Grub menu.lst file and /etc/fstab to point to the > second drive's boot sector but I can't see any way to alter them as they > are both read only and I can't figure out how to change the permissions. > Can someone please give me an idiots guide as to how to do it or should > I seek an alternative way - maybe install VMware and persuade it to see > the windows drive - again though I would need to get at fstab or mtab to > get ubuntu to see the 2nd drive - dohhh! my fuddled brain hurts..... >
I believe what you need is to login as root. Power up and login normally. Bring up a terminal window with Applications:Accessories:Terminal. Type "sudo su -",(enter). This should ask you for a password. Use your password from your normal username. You can now do what you need to do as root from this window. Your prompt should be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#". I used to use "nautilus --browser &" but I see it's not working with Ubuntu, so you may be stuck with "ls". "pico /etc/fstab" should work for editing. Good luck. -- Kirk Wallace (California, USA http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ Hardinge HNC lathe, Bridgeport mill conversion, doing XY now, Zubal lathe conversion pending) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
