Carlos F Lange wrote:
On Sunday 17 September 2006 11:23, Ed McCanless wrote:
Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Ed McCanless wrote:
Here's what I tried: # ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst -rw------- 1 root root 755 Sept 15 13:11 /boot/grub/menu.lst
So, it looks like I either need more help with commands, or there's nothing there. Sorry, I haven't done command line much since the 80's, and that was DOS. --ED--
Can you copy and paste the file contents into an email? I see you are sending this with Thunderbird in Windows. Maybe copy the file to where you can get to it in Windows, and copy paste the contents to an email. That should get us much closer to getting this fixed.
I guess I didn't explain well enough. I can transfer the file from one computer to the other, but I could not find anything but the info above(the file name.) I don't know if the file is empty, or if I just don't know how to retrieve it. I need more command line help. --ED--
You can use cat /boot/grub/menu.lst to output the file content in your console terminal, similar to "type" from DOS. The command "less" lets you visualize a long file, paging up and down, but the contents disappear when you exit with "q".
Joe's suggestion implies that you can copy the file to your Windows partition: cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /windows/C/ and then open the file with notepad and copy it into your Thunderbird email.
Carlos FL
Thanks,Carlos: I knew I was probably doing something wrong. I need a good book on Linux commands. Will have to use a disc. I have two separate computers. --ED--