OK I had to try it!!

jolphil · 02-10-2008, 02:26 PM

The previous glowing post got me going..I just had to see for myself..
It is installed and seems to be working fine..Found all my hardware and configured it although i did not check everything yet..ie scanner /printer etc.
I must say though the installer is not as automatic as some other distros..
You must make informed choices that other distros automatically do for you..
I am coming to terms with VL5.9 and will give it a trial run..
Jolphil

anomie · 02-11-2008, 11:18 PM

VectorLinux is not bad at all. I gave 5.9 a try a few weeks ago. My favorite thing about it was after installation and first boot, I opened up a terminal and typed:
$ netstat -ltn

Nothing was listening by default.

'Bout time.

t6seal · 02-13-2008, 11:53 PM

Admittedly, I am a newbie, so vector is my 4th distro to try.So far,I like the ease of use but am unable to mount second scsi hd which is still formatted ntfs. I am sure there is a simple solution for this, but, as I said before, I am a newbie and have not found the solution.Any advise would be greatly appreciated.

jschiwal · 02-13-2008, 11:59 PM

You might be interested in this article:
http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog...etica+Fonts+Go

Apparently, in Vector Linux TTF and OTF fonts are enabled. This article covers how to configure it to use other fonts.

jschiwal · 02-14-2008, 02:27 AM

t6seal:
First check if there is an /windows, or /mnt/c or /c directory. It may already have been detected and mounted for you during the installation process. Type in "mount | ntfs". If you see a line like: "/dev/sdd1 on /media/My Book type ntfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,utf8)
" it is already mounted. In my example, this is an external drive that was automounted. Check in /media/ as well. Note the "ntfs" type.

Some distro's have a partitioner program that will create a mount point for you. Just be sure not to click the format box if you don't want to format the drive. It will also edit the /etc/fstab file for you and be smart when it comes to things like the character encoding to use.

If you run konqueror, you could enter "sysinfo:/" in the address bar. Right click on the partition and select mount.

If you wanted to have it mounted when you boot up and the first option wasn't available, you can add an entry in /etc/fstab yourself. First determine which device it is. On my laptop, the first partition is ntfs.

Code:

sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x94e494e4

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        3786    30409287    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2            3787        3982     1574370   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3            3983       12161    65697817+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            3983        4635     5245191   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            4636       12161    60452563+  83  Linux

If you want to only read from this partition, then use the "ntfs" filetype. If you also want to write, then A) install the fuse package if it isn't. B) modprobe the fuse module ("sudo /sbin/modprobe fuse") and use the ntfs-3g type.

Create a directory to mount the filesystem on:
sudo mkdir /mnt/xp

Code:

Here is an entry I just added for my laptop to demonstrate a working /etc/fstab entry for an ntfs partition.
/dev/sda1       /mnt/xp ntfs-3g rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=jschiwal,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,utf8 0 0

You need to edit /etc/fstab as root. You can use your favorite Linux text editor to do it. Use your own username instead of mine, of course.

You don't need to reboot to mount it. "sudo mount /mnt/xp"

Proof in the pudding:

Code:

jschiwal@hpamd64:~> ls -ld /mnt/xp
drwx------ 1 jschiwal root 24576 Feb 14 02:22 /mnt/xp
jschiwal@hpamd64:~> ls -l /mnt/xp
total 2099987
-rw------- 1 jschiwal root     341760 Aug  4  2004 BCMWL5.SYS
drwx------ 1 jschiwal root       4096 Oct 21 02:59 Documents and Settings
...