[YLUG] Kunbunto

[Saleh Odeh]

On 09/09/06, Saleh Odeh <kirk.lock at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 09/09/06, Gaffer <derrick_s at tesco.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Saleh,
> >
> > On Saturday 09 September 2006 15:39, Saleh Odeh Inscribed Thus:
> > > On 09/09/06, Gaffer <derrick_s at tesco.net> wrote:
> > > > Hi Craig & saleh,
> > > >
> > > > On Saturday 09 September 2006 15:05, Craig Genner Inscribed Thus:
> > > > > On Saturday 09 September 2006 15:01, Gaffer wrote:
> > > > > > Hi Guys,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Really daft question....
> > > > > >
> > > > > > In order to edit the grub menu one has to be root !  Since
> > > > > > Kunbunto dosen't tell you what the root password is !  How do
> > > > > > you get at this/these files to edit them ?   Or did I miss
> > > > > > something ??
> > > > >
> > > > > sudo kedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
> > > > >
> > > > > or vi, emacs, etc.
> > > > >
> > > > > Craig
> > > >
> > > > Yes thats what I thought !
> > > >
> > > > I tried sudo and get "Command not found" !   So I tried "su" !
> > > > When I use the password I use for login, it tells me that its the
> > > > wrong one !
> > > >
> > > > Whilst I can get at the files I want from the other installed
> > > > system (SuSE)  It doesn't help someone who only has Wins and
> > > > Kunbunto.  ie a new user !
> > > >
> > > > The "Help system" isn't much use either !  Being pointed to the
> > > > "Man Pages"  makes it obvious that the root password is needed !
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Best Regards:
> > > >      Derrick.
> > > >
> > > >
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> > >
> > > hmm strange..
> > >
> > > I have two questions
> > > 1) did it prompt you for a password?
> >
> > If you are referring to "su" Yes !
> >
> > > 2) was the error report in the form?
> > > "sudo: <someting else here>: command not found"
> >
> > No !  "sudo  command not found"  (then as below)
> >
> > > As for the 'su' thing not working, this is because ubuntu variants
> > > tend to either:
> > > a) Not set a password for root by default, in which case you would
> > > have to set a password for the root account by using
> > > $ sudo passwd
> >
> > How ?  "$sudo" command not found !!
> > I tried  "$sudo test"
> > I get "$sudo test  command not found
>
>
>
> Oh.. the $ sign doesnt go with the rest of the command, its just there to
> symbolize the non shell prompt,
>  So the command is actually "sudo <editor name> /boot/grub/menu.lst"
> without the $ sign
>
> and editor name may be Kedit, vi, nano, pico..etc depends on your
> preference.
>


 sorry, imeant non root, not non shell..  my bad

"
> >
> > > b) The kubuntu version you installed doesnt create a root account in
> > > first place.. which could be the case if you've just performed a
> > > fresh install of one of the newer releases
> >
> > Yes I did an install from one of the "Kunbunto" Cd's that came in the
> > post yesterday. Version 6.06
> >
> > The issue for me is that, I have installed Kunbunto along side my SuSE
> > on my machine without a problem !  I am expected to install it for a
> > client alongside Win XP !
> >
> > A second install on a machine that has Win XP on it as well shows a
> > similar behaviour, in addition to not allowing Kunbunto to move files
> > to the Wins partition !
>
>

to my knowledge Kubuntu detects previous windows installations on the
machine at installation time, its strange that it didnt add the XP
installtion to the grub menu by itself.. anyhoo, this shouldnt be a problem,
once youre in menu.lst you can just add the XP entry to the file.

As for the file transfer thing, make sure that the windows installation (or
whichever drive/filesystem that you want to transfer files to from your
kubuntu filesystem) is not an NTFS filesystem, Kubuntu doesnt have built in
support for writng on NTFS drives, youll have to install a package to allow
you to do that. (i.e captive-> http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ )

hope i was of help.. :)


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> > Best Regards:
> >      Derrick.
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
>
> --
> Saleh M. Odeh
>



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Saleh M. Odeh
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