New to UBUNTU

[Brian Durant]

On 18. jan 2006, at 7.12, Chanchao wrote:

> BD> How does the SUDO work on a live CD? For example to get the  
> ethernet
> BD> configured in KDE with Kubuntu Dapper flight 3, I get prompted for
> BD> going into admin mode.
>
> I don't.. (Breezy Live CD..) It just opens up. (All of the
> administration panels).  Of course no changes are saved anywhere after
> a reboot.
>
> For changes to the preferences panels, those seem to be mostly saved
> in the user's (user 'ubuntu') home folder, which can be manually
> backed up and restored after a reboot.
>
> I don't use sudo no matter what. Well, sudo -s perhaps, or sudo su. :)
> Ideally I would not want to go into the terminal at all, actually, but
> you currently can't run Ubuntu without using the terminal
> occasionally.  Sometimes when you read instructions, both on this
> list, or the wiki or the documentation, it gives you instructions on
> doing something using the terminal, even when there's ways of doing it
> using the GUI only.  This way we never grow out of that
> ancient mainframe-geeky-professor stuff.

Hi Chanchao,

With the Kubuntu  PPC Dapper flight 3 live-cd, when I go to admin  
mode, all netork connections are greyed out and it isn't possible to  
change anything (like get the ethernet working). That is why I  
thought it had something to do with sudo, but I guess this is a more  
fundamental issue with Dapper.

Cheers,

Brian