Wow is all I can say.. In thought that switching to a linux distro would be relatively easy, but it seems not, LOL - all is forgiven windows!

Anyway, i'm not one to give up on something after just a few hours of messing with it.. so if anyone has any prefered tutorials/manuals etc for linux in general then that'd be great.. i'll obviously research this myself too, thanks to google

It looks like e pretty steep learning curve from first impressions.. basically you have to use command line interface for most if not all admin tasks. I have yet to figure out how the hell I can even see the files on my windows HDD.. I know I have to use "sodu" command and basically assign it a location, but then the text I was reading goes off at a tangent and starts going on about user permissions etc.. which yes I do wnat to know.. but at the moment all I wanted to do was hook it up so I could play a video file from my windows HDD or my SATA HDD.

Anyway, ANY simple explanations would be great to start with.. i'm not dumb, just don't want to wade through 3 pages of technical stuff just to assign my HDD.. I can look up what the actual commands etc do later, LOL.

OK, well looks like I will have a lot of reading to do over the next few weeks/months.. first thing I'm gonna do though is make a bootable partition manager in case I want to try a different distro like xandros 2.0 and install GAG to the MBR to make stuff like changing O/S easier in future...

Everything I learn on linux I will make a "simple as possible" guide for, so that others won't have to go through a long learning process too, LOL

Thanks for any help guys

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That's one of the things that turn away people is the Windows partition mounts. It can be done in ubuntu to a read only state.


here's aquote from a forum from another guy that was asking about mounting the drives.



You could always try making a small FAT partiton somewhere that both OS's can goto to transfer files back and forth. If your windows drive are something that you'll be going to alot,I would suggest using a distro like Suse since they mount the drives right out of the box. I also think Mandrake does that too.

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Thanks man, I think I understood that.. it's been a long day, LOL.

I will definitely persevere with ubuntu, but if it gets too much I may swap to a different distro.. I have a xandros CD, and that looks pretty good http://www.madpenguin.org/Article811.html

I want to learn as much as I can about linux and it's distros in general... just may take a while to get used to, LOL. It seems pretty good, i'm not knocking it at all.. it's just like when I first starting learning about computers(mainly dos and windows), you have a lot to read up on and get the hang of using. Thanks again, will let you know how I get on

[edit] by the way, I didn't have any problems with it setting up networking etc so I could use the internet, it was all automatically done at login/install

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