Newbie in the House - Text editing Problem

[lawrencesha 0]

Hi Guy!

I'm a newbie to Linux (just managed to install my 1st RedHat Linux 9 2 days ago) . As any typical Windows user, I'm dumb folded :x by Linux. My jaw fell off as I stared at my monitor, not knowing how to start using it!Therefore, I though I might get some help from the Linux Gurus here!

 

Well, I need to learn how to do text editing in Linux. I tried VI and I gave up almost instantly. (Can't blame me.. I'm a NotePad user!). Any suggestions and help is much appreciated. I just need to add a line to my /etc/fstab so that it can auto-mount my WinXP partition during boot-up.

 

Talking about mounting, I got a few questions too...

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto,umask=0 0 0

what does auto and unmask=0 0 0 do? I manage to mount the partition that I wanted without these parameter. So, are they necessary?

 

Many thank in advance!

 

Regards,

Lawrence

Linux Newbie - Day 3

 

[egorgry 0]

Welcome and you will love VI once you learn it.

 

umask=000 is the permissions on the drive in this case read write execute by all. auto is for auto mounting at boot time. if you need to use a nice text editor as root on the console type gedit /etc/fstab you should be comfortable with gedit it's liek notepad but a better.

[SoulNothing 0]

totally agree gedit is great i find vi a bit hard as well but once you learn and if u dont have gedit here is a link to it

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gedit/