question from beginner

[zyaithon03 at si.its-sby.edu]

Hi..
i'm new comer's on this forum, iwant to ask some question. I have install
ubuntu in my pc and it was working properly, but..
>>i do not mean to make any compare with knoppix. In knoppix, it's     >
>>automatically detecting my other partition's like hda5, etc, and i
like it. >>Is it the default that ubuntu doesn't mount other partition
automatically, >>if it's yes, can you tell me how to mount other
partition in /dev ??.

>>The next is when i use terminal, i feel so strange, because it's
different >>with other distro terminal, when i press up arrow to repeat
the same order >>like 'ls', 'sudo bash', etc, terminal can't display my
last order, but it >>load the screen shot program, will you tell me how
to setting up the >>terminal ??.

>>When i open rhythmbox to play mp3, music player doesn't work properly cause
>>it's need some package, where i can download the package, so that i can
play >>my mp3 in ubuntu ??.

>>i think it's the last, is ubuntu detect my internal modem device ?

thanks...
regards