On Sunday 29 April 2007 19:27, Vivek J. Patankar wrote: > Nigel Henry wrote: > > I'm usually running FC2, but also have FC5, and FC6 on this machine. I > > have access to FC6's / directory from FC2, but some files, > > /boot/grub/grub.conf have a darned big padlock on them, so I can't even > > read them. I try to answer the odd question from the list, and just being > > able to post a few lines from a file is usefull. > > Is there some sort of workaround to get access to these padlocked files? > > After all I'm not trying to write to them, just copy a few lines to > > Kmails composer. > > Have you tried reading these files as root? > > -- > Regards > विवेक ज. पाटणकर (Vivek J. Patankar) I'm not sure how to go about that. This is how I am set up. I have 5 Linux distros on this machine I have also 2 FAT partitions that I can read and write to, which I use for saving data to. These are accessable by means of a desktop from all 5 linux distros. Directories have been made in /mnt for them, and lines have been added to fstab so that are automounted at bootup. Recently I installed FC6 on this machine, and thought I'd have a go at accessing the FC6 partitions from FC2. Did a mkdir /mnt/hdb8 (which is the / directory for FC6), and a mkdir /mnt/hdb9 (which is FC6's /home directory), then edited fstab for mounting these 2 ext3 filesystems at bootup. So far so good, and with a desktop icon for hdb8, and hdb9, I can open both of these directories, and can read most of the contents. There are some files that are locked though. A few it /etc, the initrd ones in /boot, and the ones in /boot/grub. As I say. I don't want to write to these FC6 files from FC2, just highlight a few lines on FC6's /boot/grub/grub.conf, and be able to paste them into Kmails composer on FC2. I'm a bit stuck on how to procede. I don't know if this is possible, but any suggestions are welcome. Nigel.
