lukkystarr
December 7th, 2006, 05:24 PM
Ok, I'm not new to Ubuntu, though I don't use it on a regular basis. I decided last night to set it up though for use on a regular basis. Why? Because the others I'd tried - Fedora and Suse - would not give me access to my SATA drives out of the box. I've given up on wireless for now, I have a TrueMobile which nobody seems to want to write a good driver for.
So, I decided to redo everything and put Ubuntu on the main computer for good. I did this last night, with new partitions on hda. Installation was fine (I've done it thousands of times) everything was great, with access to all my ntfs and SATA drives. I did all the updates, then logged off and went to bed.
This morning there were still 18 updates. I did those as well, because I (used to) trust the Linux people. Then I start configuring things the way I like them. Things were going ok until I needed some jpeg files for backgrounds on everyone's login. They are on an ntfs partition. I start looking. After a few minutes I realized I no longer had access automatically to those drives. I have two IDE and two SATA drives, and I had access only to the linux file system. I had it last night - then after the updates, I don't.
Why, why, why, would I not want access to these drives on my computers at home? Has someone been talking to Mr Ballmer? Is this why Bill has been out of the spotlight, so he can schmooz some people that handle other distros besides suse?
I know, it's easy to fix. But read the subject - rhetorical questions. Why should I have to 'fix' something I didn't want 'broken'? I LIKE having access to all my stuff. Who wouldn't?
So, I decided to redo everything and put Ubuntu on the main computer for good. I did this last night, with new partitions on hda. Installation was fine (I've done it thousands of times) everything was great, with access to all my ntfs and SATA drives. I did all the updates, then logged off and went to bed.
This morning there were still 18 updates. I did those as well, because I (used to) trust the Linux people. Then I start configuring things the way I like them. Things were going ok until I needed some jpeg files for backgrounds on everyone's login. They are on an ntfs partition. I start looking. After a few minutes I realized I no longer had access automatically to those drives. I have two IDE and two SATA drives, and I had access only to the linux file system. I had it last night - then after the updates, I don't.
Why, why, why, would I not want access to these drives on my computers at home? Has someone been talking to Mr Ballmer? Is this why Bill has been out of the spotlight, so he can schmooz some people that handle other distros besides suse?
I know, it's easy to fix. But read the subject - rhetorical questions. Why should I have to 'fix' something I didn't want 'broken'? I LIKE having access to all my stuff. Who wouldn't?