ubuntu questions...

[BroadbandPlacey]

ive just installed ubuntu alongside xp pro, ive got a 3rd partition in fat32 with files in it, music/videos/uni work etc, the only problem is i cant see this partition when im in ubuntu?

is there an msn messenger for linux?

[BroadbandPlacey]

oh forgot to say, cheers

[directhex]

microsoft, unsurprisingly, aren't the biggest fans of linux, so don't make an official msn messenger.

ubuntu comes with the gaim multi-protocol messenger though, should be labelled as 'IM' in the gnome menu - which supports most but not all msn features (no voice or webcams, for example, file transfer is fine)

as for your drive... i don't know a trivial, easy, ubuntuish way to get it to appear. i know the hairy hands-on linux way, and it'll appear subsequently in the gnome computer:/// windows, but i'll only cover it if you want it.

[BroadbandPlacey]

complete linux n00b but im willing to learn so go ahead

(cheers for the help so far ill give it a go tommorow)

[directhex]

open a terminal (under system tools)

become the root user ("su", or possibly "sudo bash" on ubuntu)

edit the file systems file with "nano /etc/fstab"

add a line along the lines of the following:

/dev/hda1       /mnt/windows            vfat    rw,user,noauto  0       0

where /dev/hda1 is the location of your windows partition (hda1 is most likely if you had windows installed first), and /mnt/windows is a place on the file system to make the contents of the drive available. you'll need to create the mountpoint with "mkdir /mnt/windows". subsequently, people can mount the disk to that location with "mount /mnt/windows". remove the ",noauto" to make it mount automatically on boot

[BroadbandPlacey]

cheers

[BroadbandPlacey]

ahhhhhhhh,

ive done as youve said above, but

special device /dev/hda1 does not exist

my linux install is on a slave hard drive and on a partition of that hard drive? what should it be instead of hda1?

[ikonia]

first disk primary controller hda, hdb = second disk primary controller (slave on primary)
hdc = first disk second controller hdd = second disk second controller, the numbers after the letter mean the partition number.

so for example second partition primary slave would be

/dev/hdb2

first partition 3rd disk would be

/dev/hdc1

does this help ?

[Matt1eD]

for MSN, try www.e-messenger.net (they're slowly incorporating more and more features) or http://webmessenger.msn.com (they're slowly more incorporating more features. The latter is the official version.

[BroadbandPlacey]

just tried the second one through XP, seems alright if a little slow

i think the entire drive needs to be formatted as its having a hissy fit... will get back to you

[womble]

Just had a quick look at the Ubuntu 5.04 preview on my brothers PC (it was he only one I had sitting around that seemed to install OK on his new Nforce 4 board).

Not sure if it is an Ubuntu or Gnome thing but the normal /mnt directory didn't contain anything. If I recall correctly I had to create the directory in the root filesystem (you can check this probably by looking at the /etc/fstab and seeing where the cdrom mount points are).

On the fstab front you may want to change the 'noauto' to auto and the filesystem should be automatically mounted and under Gnome an icon for the drive should appear on the desktop (does on the preview anyhow). You may have to check the properties of the directory you created to make sure that normal users can access it (right click/properties)

Sorry if I'm a bit vague here, only just come across Ubuntu and I don't have the PC in front of me at the moment. I'm going to try to install the 64bit version later on in the week so I'll revisit this topic shortly. Hope this helps a little.

Karl

[directhex]

gnome-volume-manager mounts disks, cds etc in /media

anything else, you should either not be mounting like that or have static fstab entries