Bypassing Read Only Files

[opensourceguy]

I screwed up my fstab file, and I need to edit it, however it's read only. I need to know how to bypass this. If possible, of course.


-justin

[dylunio]

Try loging in as root and changing it;
or typing

su

in the commad line; and then trying to open it;
or typing

su
vi

which will enter a command line editor;

dylunio

[opensourceguy]

As much as I didn't want to, I just formatted the hdd. I screwed up quite a few configs, that I want to fix, and since I am here, I may as well fix them.

Once I finish re-installing it, do all the Slackware commands apply to Gentoo? Like if I wanted to start x, would I just do startx? Or do I have to go through xdm or gdm, or the like?


-justin

[variant]

the commands are the same except of course a few distro specific ones like:

rc-update for adding scripts to runlevels etc
emerge for installing software
and some others which i can't recall right now!

:)

[opensourceguy]

ok cool, and I knew about those . But, I think I can figure it out [if not, there is always you guys ].


-justin