Well I have Installed Ubuntu and have a few questions

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Well after my first experience with Linux on my Aspire One I decided to install it on a PC upstairs, which is quite old and Runing Windows XP.

I got hold of a Computer Active "Ultimate Guide to Linux" at the Supermarket and it came with disc with Ubuntu 8.10. I have installed it at the moment as dual boot and it is running great.
The main questions I want to ask are:

1, How do find my second HDD as it has all my files on it and I cant see it listed in Ubuntu

2, I think I am going to get shot of XP altogether and just install Linux. Now given that everything works fine now will it still work ok if I do this ? as I have lost Drivers for mobo etc Graphics card and also I have no longer got my XP install disc (scratched it) to reinstall if things go wrong. When I installed Ubuntu fromn the Disc it did everything for me and seems to work fine.

3, last question is can I run AOL in Wine 1.0 will be loosing AOL soon as my contract is over but for now I have no choice.

I really dont want to keep XP on this system I am converted to Linux :) sorry if these questions are basic!

Thanks
 
Hi mate,
Hope you have fun with linux, it can be a bit odd to begin with.
As JRS says, is it listed in places?
As for Q2. Most things have open source drivers, Ubuntu 8.10 is very good at identifying your hardware and installing the right bits. As for the other stuff you can use propriety drivers for things like your graphics card.
As for AOL, do you need the extra AOL stuff to connect? You should be able to set passwords etc up in the network settings. This is found under >System>Preferences>Network Configuration
HTH
 
BTW, what file system did you have on that windows drive? You may need to add something to use NTFS... can't remember what the thing is called atm.
The package to add via Add/Remove is called NTFS Configuration Tool
This may sort you out.
 
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tophee said:
Hi mate,
Hope you have fun with linux, it can be a bit odd to begin with.
As JRS says, is it listed in places?
As for Q2. Most things have open source drivers, Ubuntu 8.10 is very good at identifying your hardware and installing the right bits. As for the other stuff you can use propriety drivers for things like your graphics card.
As for AOL, do you need the extra AOL stuff to connect? You should be able to set passwords etc up in the network settings. This is found under >System>Preferences>Network Configuration
HTH
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Hi, thanks for the reply much appreciated fun is one way to put it :D
NTFS was the file system for my second drive, but it seems now as if I have lost the second drive cant even find it in Windows. :eek: must be somthing I did ??

not sure what to do now...I installed the NTFS Configuration Tool as you suggested and that doesnt list the drive either.
 
Mmm, not sure. Someone else may be able to shed some light on this. When you say a second drive - was it a partition or a separate physical hdd? Did you partition your windows primary drive in the installation? You would have been given options for sda, sdb prior to partitioning. If you selected sdb you may have gone over everything.

From a terminal what does "sudo fdisk -l" withou speech marks show?
 
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tophee said:
Mmm, not sure. Someone else may be able to shed some light on this. When you say a second drive - was it a partition or a separate physical hdd? Did you partition your windows primary drive in the installation? You would have been given options for sda, sdb prior to partitioning. If you selected sdb you may have gone over everything.

From a terminal what does "sudo fdisk -l" withou speech marks show?
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Separate Drive just going to try sudo fdisk now
 
Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcc02cc02

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4864 39070048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x9bc09bc0

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 9447 75882996 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 9448 9729 2265165 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 9448 9729 2265133+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
 
At a glance it looks like you've installed over your second hard drive completely.
/dev/sda is your first hard drive, /dev/sdb is your second
/dev/sda1 is the single partition on sda your first hard drive, which will be windows.
/dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sdb5 are the three linux partitions.
 
tophee said:
At a glance it looks like you've installed over your second hard drive completely.
/dev/sda is your first hard drive, /dev/sdb is your second
/dev/sda1 is the single partition on sda your first hard drive, which will be windows.
/dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2 and /dev/sdb5 are the three linux partitions.
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I really don't know how I managed to do that I will blame the guide in Computer Active :D and the fact I did it at about 2am when I couldn't sleep. well it is done now I guess.

would like to format the the 40 Gb drive how do I do this in Linux ?

Thanks again Appreciate the help
 
sudo apt-get install gparted
gparted is a very nice and powerful GUI partition editor and disk formatter. It can format to a bunch of different filesystems.
 
I'd go with ext3 as default. Use that for the linux partition. Swap is just swap - don't allocate a file type. I tend to use xfs for storage on my media centre. Many use the default ext3.
 
You can't go wrong with ext3 unless you're doing something special where one of the others might be a better fit. If you want to share a partition between Linux and Windows, boot into Windows and format as NTFS. Linux can read and write to it and it's a much better filesystem than fat32.
 
Ok well I formatted the drive first of all in FAT32 the changed it and formatted to EXT3
in either case though it wont le me write anything to it even the make new folder option cant be selected???

Also can someone explain mounting the drive does it matter what you name the mounting point ?
 
Sounds like the permissions are wrong, it probably belongs to root. Nautilus should list the permissions in the folder properties or similar (I've never actually used Nautilus). If it is permissions, either change the owner to you or change the permissions to allow other users to write:

To change the owner to you:
sudo chown your_user /mountpoint

To allow everyone to write:
sudo chmod 755 /mountpoint

The mount point can be whatever you want, just like in Windows you can assign partitions whatever letter you want.
 
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