found solution

[ssin14]

My ethernet card was not working. So everything is fine now . I can ping

now I am in the window where it tells me to select as many urls as i like "(by number) what does this mean. I tried putting the numbers but it tells invalid items.

I am bit confused.

[kchung]

We are confused too. Are you following the scratch_install? What step are you at?

[ssin14]

sorry I post it in General discussion


I have solved problems to previous questions. I am in ntpd (network time protocol) and am stuck there there figuring out how to get out after changing the server address.

nothing is happening when I put anything after " vi /etc/ntp.conf" . I guess after this I have to get out from here and then start from cp...... onwards

[enjay]

Do you know how to use vi?

to get out press the 'esc' button and type (NOTE: you have to hit esc after using the i function in order to execute other : commands.

/string - search string
i - insert
dd - delete entire line
x - delete character at cursor
:q - quit
:q! - force quit
:w - write
:wq - write, quite
:wq! - write, force quit

-enjay

[kchung]

vi is very hard to understand in today's GUI world. You can use other text editors such as pico (which comes with pine)

For general file management and basic text editing, there's also midnight commander

[ssin14]

ohhh beautiful brother. I had no idea the vi was a test editor. now I can move on....things fine

cheers