lilo.conf is a "text" file you would need to edit. Try typing: "cat /etc/lilo.conf" to quickly dump the contents of the file to your screen. For editing it though, you would want to use an editor. If you have installed pico on your system, I would suggest using that: "pico /etc/lilo.conf" If you don't have pico installed, try using an editor through the GUI, otherwise you're stuck using vi which is intimidating for the "unfamiliar." For vi, you would do: "vi /etc/lilo.conf" Once in there, you press the "i" key to enter "insert mode." You can then change whatever. When finished changing, do the following: press the "esc" key followed by the ":" character followed by the letters "wq" which will save and exit vi. Have fun! Garrett Scott J Julian wrote: > > > > >Hey Garrett, yes i did pick lilo as the boot loader during install, only becouse thats >what I used in my last and first linux install, mdk9.2, in that one it >auto detected windows and gave it as an option at boot. I found a page >that gave me some info on editing /etc/lilo.conf. It said to log in >with root access, i typed in su, got promted for my root pass, typed it >in and i assume got root access, [root at localhost scott]# is what came up >in the terminal window. When I typed in /etc/lilo.conf it said >bash: /etc/lilo.conf: Permission denied, then goes back to >[root at localhost scott]# I am very new to linux, less than 2 weeks, what >do I do to access the lilo config???? > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list