[Wine] Alexandre says "let the newbies run as root"
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
Sat Mar 22 16:50:53 CDT 2008
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On Saturday 22 March 2008 02:11:36 am Timeout wrote:
> I am not hiding that I have no skills about Linux.
>
> I got fed up of Windows, I jumped into the cold (Linux) water with no
> assistance at all and anything like sudo or fstab is over my capabilities.
If you can use a text editor, these aren't beyond your capabilities.
Modifying /etc/fstab is a relatively mundane detail in Linux. Sudo is
well-documented and fairly easy to configure with visudo.
> My Linux-knowing environment is only stepping in so that I don't ruin
> Windows (which had been installed on a separate disk so that after every
> installation the hard disk have to be switched for booting Windows)
What distro are you using? Note that Debian offers to dual-boot by default so
you don't have to go swapping drives. If RPM is involved, you're in for an
unusually steep learning curve by today's Linux standards...
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Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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