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Bash Prompt troubles

I trying to get the bash prompt, using Dylan's boot disk (factor password didn't work). Have a couple of questions. New to linux, trying to learn. First, please explain the mount statement. Also, I have a question about Joe's Text editor. I'm confused about the CTRL K and CTRL X commands. They are to save and exit, correct? Do you have to press them at the same time, like in Windows? I tried to use them, but nothing happened. Does it take a long time to save and exit? Any help would be appreciated.

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Hold down the ctrl key, then type the K key. Release both then type the X key. This will save any changes to the file and exit.

Try ctrl-K H for on-screen help.

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joe works a lot like Emacs. Save is C-x C-s (ctrl-x, ctrl-s), exit is C-x C-c, Open/create new file is C-x C-f, etc.

mount is mount [-t type] <device> <mount point>, IIRC. The point to mounting is to tell the operating system that there is another disk in the system. A lot of this happens in the background in other operating systems (i.e., automatically mounted), but this is the UN*X way (seems bassackwards, but it allows the option of unmounting a drive and remounting it readonly, etc without rebooting). Mount point is where to mount the drive at (UN*X uses the philosophy that 'everything is a file' - thus, even disk devices appear in the filesystem, and their contents (after mounting) appear somewhere in the filesystem as well, usually a descendant of / (root). All files hang off of / in some way, so it gives the appearance that multiple disks look like one disk).

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joe works a lot like Emacs. Save is C-x C-s (ctrl-x, ctrl-s), exit is C-x C-c, Open/create new file is C-x C-f, etc.
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