Peter Onion Peter.Onion@btinternet.com wrote...

So my not very well put point is that when "diving in" to help a new user to fix problems with their system, it is not always appropriate to tell them to do it the way you would do it yourself.

In last nights situation I think it would have been much better to suggest to wildfire_cs that they email a copy of /etc/fstab to either iDunno or quinophex, for them to then make the required changes and email back the changed file. wildfire_cs could then save the original and replace it with the edited version and bingo problem solved.

I think this would be a good way to do support usually, but in this case, wildfire is trying to learn how to do things himself. That's his reason for messing about with installing and configuring things, and getting a working system set up by someone else wouldn't teach him.

eli