-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Nick wrote: > Tried that when I go to save it I get a error message that I don’t have > the permissions necessary to save the file. > > If I do a whoami I am root > > Where do I go from here then there may be some other problems. at boot screen, press <tab> and 'e' to edit. cursor down to line starting with 'kernel' press <e> to edit, add to end of line '1'. press <enter>, then <b> to boot. you will start in level 1 maintenance mode. 'cd /etc', 'cp inittab inittab.bak', 'vi inittab', cursor down to line with 'id:5:initdefault:'. cursor to '5' press <r>, press '3', enter in sequence, ':qw'. then enter 'reboot'. this should bring you up in 'command line' mode. enter 'root' at login prompt, enter root password. if refused, you may be using wrong password. changing password is another 'level 1' operation, which can be gone thru it above does not work. peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look at* it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ **** -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Red Hat - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFJLa4b+C4Bj9Rkw/wRAu0oAJoDhpLuXM1kmayFL5uFDy9Za6fB/gCfUvaT gdpRDPn6dkitSlFCt+YhGds= =uye4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
