On Sunday 13 August 2006 2:02 am, Robert Fisher wrote: hopefully, in the > fullness of time Alan will report back that he has a working Linux desktop. > Alan, here are a few (hopefully) helpful tips to get you going:-
The Instant messenger program we installed (to show you how easy Synaptic Package Manager is to use) is called Kopete. It can be used for your ICQ and MSN. _________________________________________________________ A simple method to access files for editing as root is to go... K Menu > System > File System > File Manager - Super User Mode Then right click the file you want and open it in an editor _______________________________________________________ To change to root user when in a terminal window................. su - <Enter> ______________________________________________________ To access your NTFS partion (Read Only) Open a terminal window as root (see above) mount /mnt/hda1 then you can browse to it with a file manager ____________________________________________________ To access your Fat32 partion Open a terminal window as root (see above) mount /mnt/hdb1 then you can browse to it with a file manager ___________________________________________________ To have your Fat32 partion mounted at startup............. Edit your /etc/fstab file You probably have a line like.... /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0 Comment out that line (put a # at the beginning of it) and put this in /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs users,exec 0 0 above the line # Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option (The line you add is the same as the one you comment out but without the noauto) ____________________________________________________________ Keep asking questions and do some reading via Google for queries such as "linux newbie" _________________________________________________ Hope this helps, Robert
