Re: little problems 1st install

From: chriske911 (chriske911-spamhater_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/29/04


Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 16:26:50 +0100

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 20:50:14 +0000, houghi interrupted his puter:

> chriske911 wrote:
>> [quoted text muted]
>
> 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.

/dev/hda8 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda9 /home reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6 /windows/E vfat user,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs
fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

pretty straightforward I'd say, both other NTFS partitions get mounted
each time
I've tried Kdiskfree to mount the partition (right after bootup) and it
gives me the following errors:

wrong FS-type or
bad option or
bad superblock or
too many mounted Filesystems

this seems as a fairly standard error message, right?
and surely not something I can use for troubleshooting

>
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>
> 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.

no gui at all, CLI freak are you?

buggy means not responding to a keystroke or a mouseclick when you expect
it to, for example,

a mouseclick selects a post (setfocus) and let the text of that message
appear in the body pane, a keystroke (down arrow) just sets
the focus on the next message but doesn't fill the body pane

you cannot click on anything as long as the context menu is showing
although the mouse pointer has moved to another area of the screen the
context menu doesn't unload, it remains there until you click somewhere
out of the context menu window

there is no way I found yet to group certain NG's together, they remain
ABC-sorted and also no way of grouping per newsserver

when you try to change the order of the columns in the header tab the date
fields get all screwed up until you set the date as primary field again

there is no way I found yet to change shortcuts for certain actions like I
already got used to from other progs for Linux

and that's just for Pan, Knode is even worse and has even less features
although I admit that both give me a more indepth understanding of and
functionalities than closed source progs

but I remain hopefull to hear of the killer app from one of you here

>
>> [quoted text muted]
> It will work on both
>

I'll give it a try

>> [quoted text muted]
> No idea, I honeslt hope not. ;-)

why not, they could all present it in the same fashion since the datamodel
is very alike (read treeview presentation and chronologicly sorted)
one GUI frontend for 3 diff services, the summum of reusability ;-)

>
>> [quoted text muted]
>
> 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.

I am installing all of the MSwin versions since '93 now, so it's been more
than 10 times now
I even succesfully installed Redhat 7.x, Knoppix 3.x and Mandrake 9.x
several times on older pc's but always for other people, never for myself

I must admit I tend to have the latest of hardware all of the time for
myself and doing so I have tried installing Linux several times during 6
years already and never gotten this far

at the moment I'm using my laptop (HP Pavilion 4357) for almost over a
year since I'm very pleased with this machine and it's very likely to be
the reason why I finally have a working distro, right? ^^

for the moment I use Suse for the office part of my job and windows for
coding and network related stuff

sooner or later Linux will be a big part of the desktop market so I'm
trying to catch up as fast as I can

grtz



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