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MDM Productions thefrasers at clear.net.nz
Fri Jan 4 19:45:17 NZDT 2008


Colin Templeman wrote:

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>>First timer, so my etiquette may need a brush-up!
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>In that case, welcome John.
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>>I know enough about PC's to get into bother, and nothing
>>about Linux.
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>A dangerous combo - I foresee much frustration before enlightenment.  Stick with
>it though - it's well worth it.
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>>It badly needs more RAM (offers accepted!)
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>These days, I'd recommend just buying some retail or off Trademe.  It's as cheap
>as chips (kadaboom - tish.  I thang yew)
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>>think I want Ubuntu as it looks like familiar Windows territory for a
>>newby but would take advice
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>Careful.  Ask 100 linux users what distro to recommend, you'll get 1*10^2
>permutations.  That said, Ubuntu is a good choice for users new to linux.
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>>However, Puppy has a hitch that I would like to resolve. Under 'Drives'
>>it can see both hard drives, the CDROM, and the USB. Under the 'Mount'
>>menu it can only offer one of the hard drives, the 'D', which it happily
>>does things with. The 'C' drive is not found. Can anyone help fix this
>>behaviour?
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>I think this is best covered off by you Googling for 'mounting filesystems under
>linux'.  I'm guessing your 'C' drive is formatted NTFS for Windows XP?
>Well, I'm not a Puppy user, and it's getting a bit late for me to go check
>(maybe someone else will clarify), but essentially Puppy either has no built in
>support for the NTFS filesystem, or it has but it's not automatically mounting
>NTFS drives.  So it does (as you have said) still recognise and indicate the
>'presence' of the other disk, it just can't display the contents.
>(I'd also advise you to google 'NTFS support under linux' paying attention to
>the caveats before you go ahead and play with it).
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>Have fun,
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>Colin Templeman
>On Tour in the UK
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>"Teach it Phenomenology, Doolittle".
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Thank you for your advice, Colin. Just a wee additional; stayed with 
FAT32 not NTFS in deference to (fear??) stuff left over from a 
progression of Window OS's. Puppy is quite happy to delve into 'D' drive 
but can't get his fangs into 'C' at all. I shall go a-Goooogling.




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