Guest Tallanvor Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I have to cheer, as at last I have managed to get *everything* working in Linux. Over the last five years, I have dabbled, usually with RedHat or Mandrake/Mandriva, once with Slackware, and only now have I got wifi working, the ACPI on my laptop working, my USB disks working properly, hell even my scanner works. At last I am happy to remove my Windows partitions and use just Linux. Thanks Mandriva! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Congratulations and welcome to MUB. It is a marvellous feeling when it all finally comes together and you can at last remove the windows gates amd obsticles that obstruct your view of the open world at large. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I just want to echo John's statements - congrats and welcome to the board! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 Congrats and welcome to the board! Could you give a quick summary of your hardware? It's always good to know what works (most regular stuff does nowadays, so I'm especially interested in more exotic things). Thanks in advance. Enjoy Linux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 5, 2006 Report Share Posted March 5, 2006 I echo everybody's sentiments. Congrats and welcome. I only use windows for work and have been using only linux for about 3 1/2 years. This box that I built I swore would never have windows on it. I have Gentoo, Mandriva, and LFS. And it rocks! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banjo Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 I moved over toa clean (no fnWindows) install of Mandrake three years ago and I have not looked back. Congratulations. Banjo (_)=='=~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Congrats and welcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Well done. It is a good feeling :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 (((echo))) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Tallanvor Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 Thanks to all for the warm welcome. :D A brief rundown of my systems: The Desktop: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 1Gb RAM 80Gb WD PATA HDD 120Gb WD PATA HDD K8N Neo (nForce) mobo Radeon 9600 Audigy 2 Buffalo Airstation 54g (via NDISwrapper) zBoard (not set up properly yet) Logitech mx518 (not set up properly yet) NEC DVD +/- RW Canoscan LiDE30 The laptop: Samsung V25 ACPI via custom DSDT in initrd Linksys WPC54g via NDISwrapper Everything else on the laptop ran out of the box I now have two final steps to perform, which are to make the second HDD in the desktop linux-native (rather than NTFS), and the USB HDD on my laptop the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted March 6, 2006 Report Share Posted March 6, 2006 I now have two final steps to perform, which are to make the second HDD in the desktop linux-native (rather than NTFS), and the USB HDD on my laptop the same. It might be worth thinking about making the USB HDD FAT format, that way you can still easily access the files from windows in an emergency or similar whilst safely being able to read and write from it in Linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 What Qchem said... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 I can urge you not using vfat/fat32. This is an old, obsolete filesystem, and while it works under Linux, it does not get any better by that fact. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 I wouldn't say obsolete as such, since you can still use it with Windows XP and so forth. The main thing is file sharing between Windows/Linux systems, and this really is the only option for the time being, since writing to NTFS partitions isn't exactly fast and/or stable at present :P But hope for the future, that there will be a file system you can share through that is better than FAT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 If you need to share files between Linux and Windows a FAT32 partition is the easiest (and practically only) solution. NTFS in Linux isn't fully functional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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