Super Ubuntu - yet another Ubuntu based distro

instantfundas.com ^ | Friday, January 2, 2009 | Kaushik

[expat_panama]

Please help. 

Everything works fine with Ubuntu 8.10 (from Super Ubuntu) except every time I start it up I have to mount my second hard drive and it won't stay mounted or mount automatically.  Maybe my problem is I've got the drive formatted in fat32 (so I can use it with my windows computers if need be); any ideas?  

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Looking at the Ubuntu Forums...found this...maybe the suggestions would help:

I've installed Xubuntu 8.10 on my computer but i cant mount fat32 drives, i need the permission to the read and write on that drives

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From this note at the link above :

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usually when you can't mount a fat16 or fat32 drive read/write it's because there's errors on the drive. try running dosfsck on it and see if it works normally after that.

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You might see what dosfsck does for you also....

[expat_panama]

Now it looks like the problem problem has to do with my mountpoint, because getting the drive mounted is easy but it just won't stay mounted.  Like, in windows all I do is connect up the cables and when I boot the drive shows up with a letter assigned and everything.  With Ubuntu 8.10, every time I start it up I have to click on Places/970gb/mount first and that's when I can get at the files.

Thanks for the info; the forum you turned me on to has lots of good stuff on 'sudo' and 'chmod'.  I'll try and enter in all kinds of experimental commands and see what happens --after all, how much harm could I possibly do to the data?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

how much harm could I possibly do to the data?

Yes....who cares about data,...it's the experience that is the thing...and experimenting is Fun...ROFL!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Phoronix has some benchmarks,.....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

See :

Ubuntu 64-bit More Competitive Against Mac OS X

Published on May 18, 2009

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I am anxiously awaiting the Linux Mint 64 bit Gloria...running now on the 32 bit version which is base on Ubuntu 9.04 jaunty...It’s very nice.