🚀 go-pugleaf

goPostal wrote:

> 
> "Kelly" <agutgopostal@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4%xfh.10$8M7.8@newsfe03.lga...
>> Dan C wrote:
>>
>>> You should do it on the command line.  Open a terminal window (should be
>>> in the menu structure), and then do the "su" thing as I said above, to
>>> get
>>> to be the root user.
>>>
>>> Then navigate to the Desktop directory.  Hard to say for sure since I
>>> don't know what you're using, but might be this command:
>>>
>>> cd ~/Desktop
>>>
>>> Once you do that, do an "ls" (without quotes) to see what's there.  If
>>> you
>>> see the filename of the installer, do this next in the terminal:
>>>
>>> sh linux-installer.sh
>>>
>>> ...and the installer should come up...  good luck.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I tried doing this and it won't recognize the change to desktop. Here is
>> a copy from the command line console (BTW I'm using Konsole and KDE but
>> also have Xterm)
>>
>> [root@localhost kelly]# cd ~/Desktop
>> bash: cd: /root/Desktop: No such file or directory
>>
>> I've not changed anything but poking around the directory structure and
>> cd commands remind me of DOS.
> 
> Sorry Dan. The previous post was mine but I accidentally configured
> Thunderbird with a different handle.

If you're doing that as root it shoud be cd /home/yourusername/Desktop
The ~ is short for /home/username as a user or /root as root and as you can
see there is no Desktop directory in /root

[sidney@sidney ~]$ ~
bash: /home/sidney: is a directory
[sidney@sidney ~]$ su
Password:
[root@sidney sidney]# ~
bash: /root: is a directory
[root@sidney sidney]# cd ~
[root@sidney ~]# ls
drakx/  tmp/
[root@sidney ~]#

More correct practice would be to navigate to your directory of choice and
then su to root.
Another very usefull tool for navigation is midnight commander. Type mc in a
Konsole and use the arrow keys :)     

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sid
RLU 300284  
Mandriva 2007
2.6.17.13mm