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I'm trying to edit the terminal on my Pi and whenever I edit my terminal with the command nano /boot/config.txt this comes up:
nano /boot/config.txt unwritable
Whenever I try to exit and try to save I get an error message
[Error writing /boot/config.txt: Permission denied]
When issuing your command, if permissions are denied, the easiest way to fix that is to run the command with root privileges.
Like this:
sudo nano /boot/config.txt
sudo basically let's the command after it do whatever it wants (like in your case, let nano write to /boot/config.txt), so be careful.
You need root permission to edit system files.
This can be done with sudo nano but it is much better to use sudoedit
sudoedit /boot/config.txt
