On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 09:33, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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.) Just a suggestion .. but go to Applications -> editors-> Konsole open it then click on sessions MC is probably already installed. (at least it was on mine after the urpmi --auto-select upgrade. > > derek
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