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Except that under my System -> Administration there is no following -> Disks, so I have no idea what the hell they're talking about.
Hmm... I'll have to take a look when I get home. I have a windows partition, but it was automatically setup when I installed. You might check in /media and see if it is there.
I can probably tell you how to do it without the GUI but I could try to find what you are looking for in the GUI tonight. That would be a nice GUI tool.
Thanks, Gud. No rush. Later tonight is fine, and in the meantime, I'll look in /media.
Gud, thanks for the advice; I was in the middle of writing a post to you when Windows crashed, as it has done every single time I've booted the damned computer for the last four days. Something with winlogon, I think.
I set up a partition and went to install Ubuntu, but the installer crashed and now the hard disk isn't seeing the primary partition that holds Windows. I loaded up Knoppix, and all the file tree and files are still there, but for some reason it won't boot. at this point I just want to chuck the thing out the window, except then I remembered that I really enjoy using knoppix. So I'm thinking about doing a hard-disk install of that. The only thing that holds me back is iTunes.
Stupid computers.
I think if you do the following on the command line a Disk management utility will appear.
sudo apt-get install gparted sudo apt-get install pysdm
Then in administration the "Storage Device Manager" will show up and I believe this is the tool that can mount other partitions in a GUI.
The Disks utility was in the previous version of Ubuntu and I don't know why it isn't there in 6.10.
I'd check to make sure the shares aren't already there. If you post your "/etc/fstab" file, I can tell you if a windows partition is being mounted automatically.
The Ubuntu install crashed? Hmm... If you like Knoppix you could also try Freespire, or Mandriva, or SUSE (choosing KDE instead of GNOME).
With both Windows and the Ubuntu crashing, I'm wondering if it's a disk (hardware) problem....
A cool 404 page :) [link]
A cool 404 page :) [link]
That rocked!
Okay, that's it. I fell victim. I'm in the process of installing ubuntu on one of my machines. In a short time my desktop will have three computers with three different operating systems running and no less than 4 LCD monitors shining away. I think I need help.
I think I need help.
More OSes than people is a perfectly normal state!