editing grub

[tommac]

David Hopkins wrote:
> What you need to do is open a "terminal" or "shell". This can be done
> in a few ways. I can't remember off the top of my head, but have a
> search around the programs in the K menu and you should find it!
>
> You will now have a prompt waiting for you to type stuff into. Have a
> play about with it e.g. type "ls -l" or mkdir tommac. If you want to
> discover more about linux this is good place to start. There is a
> tonne of information out there just waiting for you to discover about
> the linux shell! And there is always the man pages if you need them.
>
> Okay, back to the task in hand. I asked you to type "sudo kate
> /boot/grub/menu.lst". Lets break it down. Firstly the sudo command.
> This is integral to the way (K)Ubuntu works. Whenever you do something
> from the shell that requires root privileges you need to type "sudo"
> first, which will prompt for your password. Basically temporarily
> becoming root for the command that follows the sudo bit.
>
> The next bit was "kate". This is a very nice text editor contained
> within KDE, and you can start it simply by typing kate from the shell.
> If you type kate then the name of a file, it will open that file ready
> for editing, which is what we want.
>
> All together then:
>
> sudo (temp become root) kate (text editor) /boot/grub/menu.lst (name
> of the file)
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> On 15/05/06, tommac <tommac at cableone.net> wrote:
>> David Hopkins wrote:
>> > You standard user account is not allowed to edit this file. This is a
>> > good thing as you would not accidentaly want to edit it! You need to
>> > edit this file as root, which mean typing the following
>> >
>> > sudo kate /boot/grub/menu.lst
>> >
>> > On 15/05/06, tommy mcdurmon <tommac at cableone.net> wrote:
>> >> I need to edit grub file. I can get to
>> >>  /boot/grub/menu.lst
>> >> using the run command, and do the typing to edit the file but cannot
>> >> save the file. A notice comes up saying it is not possible to 
>> write to
>> >> this file and there may not be enough disk space.
>> >> When I go to options, it allows me to open in terminal but 
>> permission is
>> >> denied to list or edit the file.
>> >> How can I change this or is there another path to this file that will
>> >> allow me to edit?
>> >>
>> >> thanks
>> >> tom
>> >>
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>> >
>> thanks David for the info, but I need more help. How do I edit this file
>> as root? Where do I type sudo kate etc.?  Sorry for all these questions,
>> I'm new to this. Your help is greatly appreciated.
>> tom
>>
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>
Thanks David, You are a great help.
tom