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Then I had to suss out the "gksudo gedit menu.lst" command because I can't just open up a file, edit it, and save it like I can in Windows.
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>it is because the difference of the basic philosophy of Window$ and any Unix-like system.
1. two kind of wrong approachies in Window$:
a) in general and in this case surely you are logged in as a system administrator
b) the basic policy in Window$: you can do nothing that is not prohibited
2. two kind of good approachies in Unix-like systems
a) mostly you are logged in as a simple user but may have some admin rights
b) the basic policy in Unix-like systems: you can do nothing that is not permitted.
menu.lst is an important part of the system, you can NOT edit it as a user even if you are the admin. but you can get extra rights using the sudo command and the permitted user's password to do that. so in this point of view not the Linux bad but your habits got using Window$ for long years in a wrong way.
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(OnTrack6, by the way, allows older Windows OSes like Windows 98 to read and use the entirety rather than just a portion of large, modern hard drives.)
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>so what did you expect? it is a recovery tool (or something like this) for old Window$ OSes, nothing about Linux. it is not a bootable filesystem nor a supported filetype in Linux. So? pebkac?