Nick Rout wrote:

On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 07:23, Roger Searle wrote:


Yes, this is a good explanation.   A question:

I figured out I can edit fstab via
[EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# kedit /etc/fstab

as I need to be root. While this works fine, is kedit the "best" editor or is there something simpler/better?



oh dear its holy war time again.

seasoned veterans will say "vi" because it is on every unix system as
standard, and is aged, venerable and powerful, but its a bitch to learn


Actually, vi was quite easy for me to learn, and im the complete opposite to a seasoned veteran - a 14-yr-old thats been using linux for only about a year. :P

for those used to the word processor/notepad paradigm. There are lots of
good howtos floating around the net.

"nano" is very easy, and is becoming common for distros to set up as a
default, cos it is easy for newbies.

personally I like midnight commander ("mc") and its built in editor (hit
"F4" over any filename, or get the editor from the command line with
"mcedit"



The other question I had was related to finding group and user IDs without resorting to the gui tool, but google has been my friend!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] roger]# id roger
uid=501(roger) gid=501(roger) groups=501(roger)


I'm getting over my command line fear  ;-)




Robert Fisher wrote:



This link takes you to a very good, IMHO, explanation of how to mount Windows partitions.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=29285

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 20:51, Roger Searle wrote:




I have umask=0.  Is this the same as umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat codepage=850,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
















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