This worked. My terminal now says:
[alex@new alex]$ []
I know I can replace "new" with whatever I want.
Now, for the network file. I can't modify this in gedit and save it. It is readonly. Is there a way to change this?
Toshiba M115 ● 1.49 GB DDR-2 RAM ● 1.6 GHz Centrino Duo ● 80GB HDD ● Windows XP Media Center Edition