Starting with the basics

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: Starting with the basics
started by: zuesko

Posted by zuesko on Mar. 18 2007,10:46

Hi DSL team,
I'm a newbie to Linux and having trouble starting with the basics.
I would like to know if you can copy information from the ATerminal to a text editor, if so how?
The reason for this is I am having trouble with mounting issues and would like to post my cfdisk output for somebody to check.

Thanking in advance all who help this newbie.

Posted by Juanito on Mar. 18 2007,11:21

Highlight the text in the terminal window using your mouse and then paste into the text editor by clicking the middle mouse button.

If you do not have a middle mouse button, paste by clicking the left and right mouse buttons at the same time.

Posted by zuesko on Mar. 19 2007,00:17

Hi Juanito,
That's what I thought.
I've got DSL installed on an old Compaq Armarda 1500c Laptop with mouse pad. This is what happens-
1.Highlight text in ATerminal
2.Place cursor in open beaver file
3.click both buttons and beaver context menu appears
4.click paste from the context menu and nothing happens?

Any ideas?

Posted by Juanito on Mar. 19 2007,03:23

Maybe in xsetup.sh you have to select a 3-button mouse?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Mar. 19 2007,14:17

If your mouse isn't set up correctly, you can also try pressing shift+insert at the same time to 'paste'

Posted by newOldUser on Mar. 19 2007,16:21

zuesko,

You have to highlight the text in the terminal window and then click the left mouse button to 'copy' it. THEN go to the other app and 'paste' it using the simulated third mouse button. This might explain it better: < http://maven.smith.edu/~vvouille/353b/linux.html#7.%20Copy > Look at the Copy/Paste section.

Good luck

Posted by zuesko on Mar. 20 2007,01:23

guys,
none of that worked, however using Ted and the edit menu I have managed to save a file.
As I said the most I know about Linux it is an O/s. So now I am off to install forum with my bigger problems.
No I am not yes I can save the file to /ramdisk/home/dsl
and I can mount the floppy fd0 but how do I copy the file to the floppy? I cannot post from the laptop(no net connection another issue). That's why I have attempted to copy the information.

Thanks again

Posted by curaga on Mar. 22 2007,13:28

if you just type
mount /dev/fd0
it mounts it to /mnt/auto/floppy.
You then copy what you need there, like
cp -vi file1 file2 /mnt/auto/floppy

after that remeber to
sudo umount /dev/fd0

or you will get a corrupted floppy

Posted by zuesko on Mar. 26 2007,09:35

Thanks curaga,
At this rate I'll be up and running in '08. At least I can now show my patitions and someone can tell me were I went wrong.

Posted by humpty on Mar. 26 2007,14:21

shift+insert doesn't work in beaver.
but it will work using vi.

open another shell.
vi something.txt
i
<shift+ins>
<esc>
:wq

(oh sorry, bit late with his post)

Posted by zuesko on Mar. 27 2007,17:02

Thanks humpty,
Never too late to learn something new!