Lantis wrote:Why has no one suggested this guy loads up WinSCP (or similar) so he can WYSIWYG his way through the instructions instead of berating his inability at Vi?
I didn't berate him, and you don't have to have any experience with vi to simply follow a step by step instruction guide.
When I wrote the Chaos Calmer portion of the extroot wiki, I explicitly gave clear and concise directions on how to edit fstab with vi... this is exactly why I referred him to the fstab portion of the extroot wiki - he simply refused to read it not once or twice, but more than 3 separate times.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't force it to drink...
Exactly how much simplier should it have to be stated? [If anyone has a suggestion, I'd be happy to listen]
Windows: " i " to edit, save via " alt: " then " :wq "
*nix Distro: " i " to edit, save via " esc " then " :wq "
block detect > /etc/config/fstab ; vi /etc/config/fstab
change applicable mount target to mount point
change applicable mount enabled to 1
save, exit, and reboot
If an end user can't follow simple, clear and concise instructions, then maybe they should be paying a tech support company to do it for them.
While you make a great suggestion, [under the premise winscp isn't installed] it's also more steps and therefore inefficient, ergo more complicated, to do so
Does vi have a learning curve, most definitely... but when a guide tells you exactly what to do, and what commands to enter, the difficulties of learning vi is taken out of the equation.
(Last edited by JW0914 on 1 Oct 2015, 19:02)