Hello. Necessity is a Mother. I come bearing QUESTIONS!!!

dkathrens77 · 02-07-2008, 02:58 PM

Hi everyone.

I've been playing around with PCs since about 1985, first on an Apple IIe, typing in Applesoft BASIC programs from Nibble Magazine and then debugging them.

I put together a Seagate 64MB SCSI hard drive and mated it to my IIe, to the amazement of my fellow usergroup members. It cost about $750 for the hardware and lasted about 10 years. Later I added a 1 Mb RAM card and replaced the 1 MHz 65C02 processor with a 4 MHz Rocket Chip.

After a few years. I got a IIgs, and then broke into the PC world around 1989, when I learned to administer a dBase II+ database application at work.

I got my first Intel desktop in 1991. I've learned a lot, and in recent years dabbled with dual boot M$/Linux machines.

I've put together a new PC (my second) that has an AMD Athlon 64 processor, and I'm jumping into the world of 64 bit computing.

This machine is dual boot WinXP 64/Debian Etch 4.0 amd64

I am a Second Life user and I found much to my dismay that I can't run the SL client on XP 64. I tried downloading the Linux Alpha client, but I'm having problems getting it to work.

I've downloaded the proprietary ATI drivers for my RADEON HD 2600 Pro PCI-e video card, but I still can't get the SL client to run under Debian.

That is what brings me here. I hope some of you will be willing to help me learn what I need to know about this.

Oh, and I'd like to be able to MOUNT my NTFS data partition so I can access all my files and digital images in Debian.

I'll be posting on what I hope are the correct forums about these two issues.

leonscape · 02-07-2008, 03:55 PM

mounting ntfs just for reading in Linux is quite easy

su to root

Code:

username@machine: ~$ su
Password: enter root password although nothing shows up
machine: /home/username# mkdir /mnt/windows
machine: /home/username# mount -t ntfs /dev/hdxx /mnt/windows
machine: /home/username# cd /mnt/windows
machine: /mnt/windows# ls
CONFIG.SYS            MSDOS.SYS     ntldr     Program Files  System Volume Information  WINDOWS
AUTOEXEC.BAT          Inetpub       MSOCache  NVIDIA         temp                       boot.ini
Documents and Settings  IO.SYS        NTDETECT.COM  pagefile.sys  RECYCLER

to make it permanant, add the line to /etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/hdxx	/mnt/windows	ntfs	users,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000	0	0

/dev/hdxx should be set to the correct partition of course.

jailbait · 02-07-2008, 03:55 PM

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domacious · 03-27-2008, 02:04 AM

In an attempt to not post duplicate questions I find myself piggy-backing on this question posted bydkathrens77.
I've just dual-booted my ASUS A7K notebook with Vista (default OS) and SuSE 10.3. Everything installed OK and I'm getting a desktop and the auto install added my ntfs partition to the fstab so I have access to all my windows files.

Note to the post on how to mount ntfs partition by leonscape. When I did this under root then only root could access the mounted resource and haven't found an answer to this issue but to add to fstab. But I digress.

Running the AMD Turion 64x2 with a Radeon HD 2600 video card and the Realtek HD audio card built in.

Going to AMD's web site I downloaded the ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run file who's instructions say to su- then cd to containing folder and enter "ati-driver-installer-8-3-x86.x86_64.run" (as I interpreted their instructions) however SuSE comes back saying that run command is not found.

I'm hoping that someone can help clear up this issue for us.

Dom-

OralDeckard · 04-01-2008, 09:34 AM

You might want to also give your Linux read/write capability on that NTFS drive. To do that, install ntfs-3g and ntfs-config. I guess you'll use something like apt to get it, as yumex may now work for you.

Anyway, the line in your file system table (/etc/fstab) should look something like this:
/dev/sdd1 /mnt/MyNTFSPartition ntfs-3g noauto,rw,users,async,force,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

And I started computing on a Rockwell AIM 65 in 1978, and I did dBaseIII+, so there

domacious · 04-01-2008, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OralDeckard

And I started computing on a Rockwell AIM 65 in 1978, and I did dBaseIII+, so there

Many thanks kind sir. I found that the issues were pertaining to that ability to r/w permissions on ntfs partitions. After downloading the file under my Linux profile I was able to install the file however this still didn't resolve the issue as the 3-D still failed and the 1440 x 900 resolution didn't take either.

I started computing on a Commodore 64 typing in the code from the Computing magazine.

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OralDeckard · 04-03-2008, 08:32 PM

I don't know what to tell you about the ATI video drivers. I do know that the ATI drivers from the Livna repository are much better than from ATI, but Linva is apparently for my Fedora.

The NTFS-3g driver allows RW access to your drive. The fstab line that I provided allows it to be mounted by the user, not just root.

My first venture into the Comodore arena was with a VIC 20. It had 5K of RAM onboard. My AIM had 1 K when I bought it, but was expandable to 4K on board. I later upgraded it to 32K by wire wrapping a memory expansion daughter board.

I wrote a 6502 Assembly program to read data from 16 transducers on a dynamometer as a racing engine was slowly reved up across its test range, and tabulate and graph the result.

Someone asked me if I thought the new IBM PC would be capable of such a thing, and I said no, of course not. Its just not fast enough. Hey, it may have had 10 times my 64K of RAM, but I had the faster processor, even at only 2 mHz. The 65C02 was much more efficient, and had a pipeline architecture, prefetching instructions, and allowed operation on both the rising and falling edges of the clock. The longest instruction only took 6 clock cycles.

Matter of a fact, due to the high level of emf coming off the multi-spark ignitions, I had to wait until a plug fired, then take all 16 reading and get out before the next plug fired. That was 1983 technology, and no, I still don't think an IBM XT could have done it.