Yup. This morning I woke up and turned on my laptop. It started acting strange and hanging, so I turned it off. When I turn it back on 15 minutes later, I find that some files in my Win32 folder were corrupt, so I popped in my Ubuntu CD. No clue what version it is(How can I tell?).
So yeah. I think I'll just be running straight Linux from here on out, until I get my second computer.
Which is good, it'll give me some time to learn Linux and such.
But what sucks is I can't work on my Space Pirate game anymore. Windows, you cruel thing! You took away Space Pirates! /emo
Anywho, any of you Linux kids around here wanna link me to some great tutorials on Linux for noobs? And how do I find out what version and type of Ubuntu Lunux I am running?
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 Sep 20 2007, 1:00 pm
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You should be able to read the files of the windows partition just fine - there are linux tools that can read NTFS partitions. Just don't write to them.
'uname -a' will tell you what version of the kernel you're running, which will likely tell you which distro of Ubuntu you're using. IIRC, 'apt' is the Ubuntu package manager - in that case, typing 'man apt-get' should give you the information you need to update it. It'll probably be either 'apt-get update' or 'apt-get upgrade' | |
Actually libntfs lets you write to NTFS partitions just fine. There's ones for FAT and other partition systems as well.
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Yeah, NTFS is safe to write to now. True, even two years ago it was risky business, but now it's not an issue. That being said, if your Ubuntu install is old, you might want to upgrade before playing with your NTFS partition.
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I'm sure someone will swoop in here and say it, or I might remember by the morning. Either way...