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   From: "Mike Easter"    
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   Subject: Re: Editing menu.lst   
   Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:33:04 -0800   
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   One of the reasons some of us who grew up with GUI for the past 20+   
   years absolutely hate commandlines.   
      
   ace wrote:   
   > I want to edit the file menu.lst, which for   
   > some reason needs root privileges to edit.   
   >   
   > I opened the terminal and typed   
   > edit boot/grub/menu.lst preceded   
   > by sudo, gksudo, sudo nano, etc.   
   > and none of them worked.   
   > Can someone tell me the proper   
   > command to edit this file and   
   > save it after editing?   
      
   User wrote:   
   > Hadron wrote:   
      
   >> sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.list   
   >>   
   >> (note the preceeding forward slash).   
      
   >   sudo nano /boot/grub/menu.list brings up an empty file. Now what do   
   > I do? What should I type in the empty file? Should I save menu.list   
   > as an empty file?   
      
   Alan Gregory wrote:   
      
   > You have an extra character in "list" ...   
      
      
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   Mike Easter   
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