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Post by kinghanco on May 16, 2007 7:21:20 GMT -5
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Post by Sune on May 16, 2007 10:39:23 GMT -5
pSX works fine with Linux Mint.
Mint is basically Ubuntu in different wrapping and with some really cool extras.
Out of the few distros I've tried, I prefer Mint.
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Post by patrickp on May 16, 2007 14:01:22 GMT -5
Nice find, kinghanco - the MS Linux one, I mean. One of the nice things about most popular Linux distros is that they do live CDs - that is, rather than just installing from the CD, you can boot into the Linux distro with it - try it out without installing it. It's a bit slower than an actual install because it's running from CD and there are some operations (installing and updating applications, for instance) that you can't do, for obvious reasons, but it gives you a good idea. You can even boot up the distro's browser, come to the forum and tell us what you think of it! Maybe you should give it a try... The first distro I spent any time with was SimplyMEPIS - Ubuntu (or rather Kubuntu) -based, but set up to be easy for n00bs - and it _was_ easy. Now I'm using straight Ubuntu, but MEPIS gave me a good start. Don't forget you can run pSX in Linux now!
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Post by Ultima on May 22, 2007 0:36:24 GMT -5
Erm. I'm not sure what else to say besides that it *should* work on any Linux distro, as long as it has the right dependencies and drivers installed...
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 28, 2007 0:40:45 GMT -5
Ubuntu I have this install right now on my 2nd hard drive. I also boot from the 2nd hard drive as well.
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Post by patrickp on Jun 28, 2007 2:40:57 GMT -5
Good for you, kinghanco - welcome to open source computing! You've probably found you can read your Windows partitions but not write to them in Ubuntu. NTFS writing can easily be enabled in Feisty, though, and I've had no problems with it - works beautifully. See the online documentation for Feisty and the Community Documents - this is the section you want. Of course, Ubuntu's always been able to read and write to FAT32 partions natively (that's how I used to share stuff between OSs). As I've mentioned before, it's a good idea to keep all your pSX stuff (BIOSs, images, saves etc) on a partition that both OSs can read/write to; this can save a lot of file space. You can do this with a lot of other stuff, too.
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 28, 2007 21:59:07 GMT -5
Heh NTFS 3G is broken here. I can't unmount my hard drives. I going to reinstall ubuntu now. Don't use NTFS 3G because it is buggy. Many people having problems with it.
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Post by Ultima on Jun 28, 2007 23:01:17 GMT -5
Not from what I've heard of it; I've seen plenty of praises for NTFS 3G...
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 29, 2007 1:34:09 GMT -5
Unless I download a buggy version that ubuntu have listed. nfts-3g version 1:1.328-1
I check on the website and the person list different than it shown on ubuntu. ntfs-3g version 1.616.
How I install this ntfs-3g-1.616?
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Post by patrickp on Jun 29, 2007 12:33:34 GMT -5
Well, I have to say ntfs-3g 1:1.328-1 is working perfectly for me, kinghanco - how did you install it? AIR you should have installed ntfs-config; this would have installed ntfs-3g 1:1.328-1 as part of the package.
Then you need to enable NTFS writing in the NTFS Configuration Tool that will now appear in your Applications -> System Tools menu.
I don't think installing a later version of ntfs-3g is going to help, but if that's what you want to do, look on their site. Yes; if you follow the Ubuntu link, it'll point you to the Ubuntu Forums howto on installing the updated driver.
BTW you need to mount, not unmount, your NTFS drives to read/write to them. Ubuntu should mount all the available drives in your system anyway.
Could you read from your NTFS drives before installing the ntfs-3g driver? You should have been able to. If you weren't, it's likely something is wrong with your drives rather than with the ntfs-3g driver.
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 30, 2007 4:56:10 GMT -5
Without the nfts-3g I can mount and unmount. I just can't send stuff onto nfts drives. With the nfts-3g I can't unmount at all. But I can send files back and forth with the nfts-3g. Here is what I been doing though. I download off of XP side and then send those to ubuntu side without a problem after mount a drive that I download the files to. Maybe I have too hard drives that will screwup nfts-3g config to where it stays on mount and give a warning that I can't unmount. Never mind. I found my report. ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=487523
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Post by patrickp on Jun 30, 2007 8:38:08 GMT -5
Did you install ntfs-3g the way I (and the documentation) suggested, kinghanco, and enable NTFS writing?
Edit: FWIW I'm running two hard drives, each with several partitions, on my main machine, and each drives has at least one NTFS partition. I have no problems with this: from what I can see of the screenshot you posted in Ubuntu Forums, you have two unpartitioned drives. I won't comment again on the benefits of separating OS partitions and data storage partitions.
One other thing: since Feisty will possibly need to remount your drives after installing ntfs-3g and enabling NTFS writing, it would probably be a good idea to restart X after doing so, and possibly even reboot.
BTW, why are you downloading in Windows and transferring the files to Linux? I've found that, on average, Ubuntu seems to have better downloading times/speeds than Windows, especially on large files.
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 30, 2007 15:28:29 GMT -5
What do you mean that I have two unpartitioned drives? All 3 are partition. 2 ntfs and 1 ubuntu. So you are saying ntfs-3g broken because it is reading as two unpartitioned drives. That is full of shit from ntfs-3g. I will never install it again until the 2 issues are fix. fstab and unmount. I will never ever mess with ntfs as long the damn reading error is there. It is fine without it.
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Post by patrickp on Jun 30, 2007 18:34:37 GMT -5
Well, my installation of Feisty shows all the non-Linux partitions on my system as drives on the desktop, kinghanco, not just the drives themselves.
I would have thought that if you installed ntfs-3g the way I suggested, by installing ntfs-config, the driver wouldn't be loaded until you enabled it in NTFS Configuration, and if you installed it without ntfs-config it wouldn't be loaded at all. So it shouldn't be affecting your drives unless you did enable it as I suggested. You still haven't said one way or the other, but I would infer from what you said before that you just installed ntfs-3g and not ntfs-config.
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Post by kinghanco on Jun 30, 2007 19:38:32 GMT -5
Tell me what to install actually. I been installing this one. It doesn't include the NTFS-3g? Here another area. This is where you download from? I'm very confuse then. ubuntu shows it doesn't support ether one. Do I need to mount the hard drives before install this?
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