love kubuntu but

[Scott]

i love this OS but will have to go back to a old version of Xandros. Can't seem to get any help from here or any place else. I'm a user not a hacker. I think Linux is the way to go but it's to hard to configure when you don't know you way around and don't understand most of the how to's They aren't written in simlpe english.

[Scott]

Re: love kubuntu but

Sorry for the above post. I was about ready to quit, found I now have network up and running to some degree, don't know what I did.
The only big thing is how to get a partition to mount. I'm afraid to experiment. It seems it wants to mount to a mount point that is use.

[aysiu]

Re: love kubuntu but

One of these should help:
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindows
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux.html

[Scott]

Re: love kubuntu but

Thanks for the info. I get this when I sudo mount -a
scott@scott-laptop:~$ sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_backup
scott@scott-laptop:~$ sudo nano /etc/fstab
scott@scott-laptop:~$ sudo mount -a
mount: /dev/sda already mounted or <mount point> busy
mount: /dev/hda5 already mounted or /storage busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda5 is mounted on /media/hda5
scott@scott-laptop:~$
How to do I make another mount point? or what can I do to change this?
Thanks Scott

[Teppic]

Re: love kubuntu but

A 'mount point' is just a directory, for the sake of convention they live in /mnt or /media, as an example

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/camera

would make a directory called camera in /mnt, then I could add

 /dev/sda1   /mnt/camera    auto    noauto,user    0 0

to my fstab. The fstab entry would allow a user (because of the 'user' keyword in the options column) to mount my camera when plugged in at the mount point /mnt/camera.

The command you used 'mount -a' means 'mount everything in fstab'. the lines

mount: /dev/hda5 already mounted or /storage busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hda5 is mounted on /media/hda5

is fine, it's just telling you it failed to mount /dev/hda5 because it's allready mounted. However the line

mount: /dev/sda already mounted or <mount point> busy

makes me think you left the words '<mount point>' in your fstab file. <mount point> is supposed to be replaced with /mnt/camera or whatever you want the 'mount point' to be.

If you are apprehensive about messing with your fstab file (and believe me, at times you should be) without being too sure about what you are doing you can try the same commands out for yourself. Typing

sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/camera/

will do the same (until you reboot) as adding the line to fstab and typing 'mount -a', with the added bonus that if the device (the /dev/sda bit) or mount point is wrong you get an error straight away without having to edit files again to try a different one. The other bonus to this is once you get the right command, the line you do need to add to fstab to make it permanent is added to your /etc/mtab file, just

cat /etc/mtab

and look for the line that corresponds to the command you just sucessfully used.

[Scott]

Re: love kubuntu but

Thanks On a Roll: I found one i should have write more carefully. I'm strying to get /dev/hda4 to work not 5. Changed that, things still don't mount. It appears that I have 3 devices trying to mount to the same point. The other 2 are storage devices(usbs). I also found there is a folder in my home folder that is named <mounting> tried to edit it out but get the message that it isn't in modiifable mode. This seems to be the issue all along. I don't have a clue on how to fix this.
Thanks Scott

[Scott]

Re: love kubuntu but

Got my storage drive working, I hope it will stay this way. I was even able to share it with XP on vmware.
Thanks to all who helped with this project.






scott