Re: little problems 1st install

From: houghi (houghi_at_houghi.org.invalid)
Date: 11/28/04 

Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:50:14 -0000

chriske911 wrote:
> 2) I reformatted a windows data partition from NTFS to Fat32 so I could
> share files between both OS's but each time I restart I have to mount
> the partition again (to /windows/E) , before when it was NTFS there was
> no problem

In /etc/fstab you will have a line where it says /windows/E. There will
be a word called 'noauto' change that to 'auto'. That should do it.
After the change just do 'mount -a' wich will mount all things that
should be mounted.

If that does not work, tell us what /etc/fstab says.

> 3)I've used Knode and Pan and both are slow, buggy and don't have a
> very intuitif GUI compared to MesNews I'm using now, are there better
> choices?

That is very personal. I use slrn and that does not have a GUI at all.
Also 'buggy' can mean a lot of things. I jsut looked at the screenshots
from MesNews and thought they looked very confusing to me.

> I already found Novell Evolution but it's for Gnome and I'm using KDE,
> or will it work on both desktops anyhow?
It will work on both

> also I like RSS a lot, is there something out there that combines
> Usenet, RSS and mail?
No idea, I honeslt hope not. ;-)

> the reason why I ask this is that there is so much to find out there
> and because I'm not yet the linux geek as I am with windows
> I'd like to get a chance to try out Suse before I screw everything up

screwing things up will make you learn things. The disadvatage of Linux
s that once it works, you do not have to do it again and the next time
you want to do wantb to change, you do not know how you did it and you
have to look for information all over again.

With Windows you will know after the 10th instalation just what to do
and it will seem as if it works so much easier. 

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