alain_sat
August 12th, 2009, 05:38 AM
Hi,
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and started with 8.04 more than a year ago.
I became familiar with the gnome environment but are for sure no Linux guru.
I'm trying to setup a so called HTPC (more than 1 year).
I had results under Windows but don't want it for many reasons.
The howto I'm trying to follow is starting from Xubuntu.
I tried allready with a few versions of Ubuntu but at a certain point allways get stuck.
I have 1 partition NTFS called Data (just imagine why).
Another with Ubuntu 8.10 with another trial and made a fresh one with Xubuntu9.04 under ext3.
My first problem is that I nedd to see my data partition and also my 8.10 partition. Under Ubuntu I never had problems (neither on this Triple-eee with Easy Peasy updated 8.10) I just once have to key in the sudo pass for that partition and say remember it and find the data folder under places.
But in Xubuntu I don't find this partition neither the other Ubuntu.
The other problem I had was that my HDMI output didn't work anymore untill I rebooted under another partition.
Having 2 screens give me also problems as they only clone and that is not what I want.
I'm sure someone out there will tell me how to do and maybe just by creating a symlink on the command line.
Thanks
Alain (want to get rid of Windows but it is difficult)
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and started with 8.04 more than a year ago.
I became familiar with the gnome environment but are for sure no Linux guru.
I'm trying to setup a so called HTPC (more than 1 year).
I had results under Windows but don't want it for many reasons.
The howto I'm trying to follow is starting from Xubuntu.
I tried allready with a few versions of Ubuntu but at a certain point allways get stuck.
I have 1 partition NTFS called Data (just imagine why).
Another with Ubuntu 8.10 with another trial and made a fresh one with Xubuntu9.04 under ext3.
My first problem is that I nedd to see my data partition and also my 8.10 partition. Under Ubuntu I never had problems (neither on this Triple-eee with Easy Peasy updated 8.10) I just once have to key in the sudo pass for that partition and say remember it and find the data folder under places.
But in Xubuntu I don't find this partition neither the other Ubuntu.
The other problem I had was that my HDMI output didn't work anymore untill I rebooted under another partition.
Having 2 screens give me also problems as they only clone and that is not what I want.
I'm sure someone out there will tell me how to do and maybe just by creating a symlink on the command line.
Thanks
Alain (want to get rid of Windows but it is difficult)