JO+
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Posted: Oct. 26 2005,20:17 |
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Brian,
'df -h' was new to me and it IS easier to read - thanks for this one!
Rob,
to be honest I am also confused, now let's see...
Your 'mount' says /dev/hda1 is RW at least to the one who has the right to. What exactly are you doing to write to /boot/grub/menu.lst ?
Don't know how familiar you are with Linux and you call yourself a noob, but seems you are seeking for challenges  : 'managed to install jre 1.5.0.05 and limewire lastnight (both from .bin files)'. So here is step by step, what I would do:
Open a terminal as root (via Fluxbox menu > XShells > Root Access) and:
root@box:~# whoami
root
root@box:~# cd /boot/grub
root@box:/boot/grub# ls -al
drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 30 11:47 .
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jul 11 21:49 ..
-rw-rw-r-- 1 dsl staff 30 Jul 11 21:41 device.map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7904 Jul 11 21:55 e2fs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7440 Jul 11 21:55 fat_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6912 Jul 11 21:55 ffs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8640 Jul 11 21:55 jfs_stage1_5
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1506 Aug 1 11:52 menu.lst
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7104 Jul 11 21:55 minix_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9568 Jul 11 21:55 reiserfs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 11 21:55 stage1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 95712 Jul 11 21:55 stage2
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6560 Jul 11 21:55 vstafs_stage1_5
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9320 Jul 11 21:55 xfs_stage1_5
root@box:/boot/grub# nano menu.lst (or vi menu.lst, whatever you like better)
Now do your changes, in nano then ctrl-O , <enter> , ctrl-X, (or in vi: ZZ) and
root@box:/boot/grub# ls -l menu.lst
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 1507 Oct 26 21:48 menu.lst
If for some reason menu.lst is RO, e.g. looks like that
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 1507 Oct 26 21:48 menu.lst
you can change access modes before editing:
root@box:/boot/grub# chmod ug+w menu.lst (allows write for user and group, however, normally for root this isn't needed )
If for some reason menu.lst has another owner, e.g. looks like that
-rw-r--r-- 1 virus trojan 1507 Oct 26 21:48 menu.lst
you can change user and group before editing:
root@box:/boot/grub# chown root:root menu.lst (however, normally for root this isn't needed )
And if you see this on the screen:
root@box:/boot/grub# ls -al
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Oct 26 21:28 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 100 Oct 26 21:28 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 26 21:28 device.map -> /KNOPPIX/boot/grub/device.map
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 26 21:28 menu.lst -> /KNOPPIX/boot/grub/menu.lst
then you have a 'frugal HD install' i.s.o. a 'full HD install', but I think we have checked that before with 'mount' .
Hope this helps in some way,
Jo
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