Re: Configuring Ubuintu -- help requested
William Leake <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 2005-07-09 at 16:20 -0700, Michael P. Hopcroft wrote: > I also have a bunch of PDF and other files on my other drive that, if they were not erased, I would > like to move so I can use again. Michael, I reread your post, and was wondering about this portion of your question. These are pdf files that were on the computer before you installed ubuntu? What filesystem is the other drive? I am guessing if it was windoze, then the FS is NTFS. Ubuntu (and most, if not all modern distros) have support to read, but not write to a NTFS partition. You just have to mount the partition. If it is the first partition on a IDE drive, then use these commands: mkdir /mnt/doze mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/doze That will give you read access to the files on that partition. Ubuntu should come with a pdf reader. But I am partial to acrobat's myself. This section of the ubuntu guide will tell you how to install that: http://ubuntuguide.org/#acroread Good luck! Ubuntu makes it easy to make the switch. Reid _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug