Gaming Thinking of maybe installing a Linux OS.

[Nujui]

Speaking of windows, is there anyway I can gain access to my windows part of my HDD? I would like to get things out of there to here without having to keep switching and moving files via usb.

 

[sentinel5000]

Yes on Ubuntu u can "mount" your windows HDD partition and use files from it, like for example mp3 files!!. I do that all the time

 

[Quietlyawesome94]

Speaking of windows, is there anyway I can gain access to my windows part of my HDD? I would like to get things out of there to here without having to keep switching and moving files via usb.

Yeah, I like to torrent using Ubuntu for some reason and if I want to put a Video into iTunes or something I drag it into my Windows partition.

I had to create a few scripts so the Windows is always mounted at launch. I found out how to do it using Google. Where most of your questions could have been answered by now. I use Ubuntu 10.04 and I have always loved it. By the way, Did you know that you can run Windows programs inside of Linux? If not, check this out. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

 

[Rydian]

If you installed via WUBI, your windows partition is mounted by default in /HOST/ IIRC.

Or somewhere near the root, named HOST.

My last Linux install with WUBI was over a year ago, so...

 

[Nujui]

If you installed via WUBI, your windows partition is mounted by default in /HOST/ IIRC.

Or somewhere near the root, named HOST.

My last Linux install with WUBI was over a year ago, so...

Ahh, thank you. I had no idea that the windows part was there .


And @Quietly: I already knew of Wine, I've already been using it right now for certain things.

 

[Nimbus]

Speaking of windows, is there anyway I can gain access to my windows part of my HDD? I would like to get things out of there to here without having to keep switching and moving files via usb.

Yes, you should be able to edit /etc/fstab as root (Use sudo gedit /etc/fstab and add in the drive pertaining to your windows install, this will allow it to mount on boot). Scripts really aren't nessesary for this, and I cannot understand why people don't just use FStab as it does the same thing.

Linux uses /dev/sdx syntax for it's drives. You need to find out which one your windows install is represented by and substitute it in the tutorial below for /dev/sdx

In fact, here's a tutorial. Psychocats is an awesome website btw, great for New Ubuntu/Debian/Mint users http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountwindowsfstab#fstab

I might actually go with Debian Mint over my Debian Sid Install. Sid breaks alot, but that's what entertains me.

Also, there's #! aka Crunchbang, based on Debian Testing (Wheezy), it's primary environments are OpenBox and Xfce, it's extremely lightweight, but you may be able to install KDE and other environments as well.

Either way, take it easy and do it slowly when you're testing out Linux. The more time you spend with it and not rush through it, the easier it will be.

 

[Quietlyawesome94]

If you installed via WUBI, your windows partition is mounted by default in /HOST/ IIRC.

Or somewhere near the root, named HOST.

My last Linux install with WUBI was over a year ago, so...

Ahh, thank you. I had no idea that the windows part was there .


And @Quietly: I already knew of Wine, I've already been using it right now for certain things.

Nice. Once you have a Distro installed, you might want to check out a few of these programs.

XBMC: A cool and quite smooth media center. You can get add-ons for youtube and other media websites.
Deluge Bittorrent client: Title.
Neverball: A sweet game 3D Game for Linux.
X-Chat: A IRC Network Client.