THE 7.04 EXPERIENCE

[Maurice Murphy]

You will be glad to hear the phantom 'disk' problem is solved. I had 
been mucking around attempting to build a dual boot arrangement 
Feisty/Xandros. Evidently, Xandros took it into its mind to install 
itself on my removable drive, creating the so called 'disk' in the 
process and reducing the size of my ntfs partition on that drive.

Of course, when I decided to forget Xandros and do a 'take over entire 
disk' installation with Feisty, the latter took no notice of the funny 
goings on on my removable drive. Instead, it dutifully noted this extra 
'drive' and showed it on the Desktop. I tracked this down using gparted, 
which noted that this phantom drive was also a boot drive, complete with 
a Linux file system!

To cut a long story short, I connected my removable drive to my wife's 
XP machine and, using Partition Magic, removed the offending partition 
and resized my original ntfs partition. I then re-installed the 
removable drive on the Ubuntu computer. Did a quick ntfsfix operation. 
Amended /etc/fstab to get rid of the 'force' mount. The result: all is 
well. Ubuntu remains supreme! :-) :-) :-)

I guess the lesson learned is MAURICE, WHY DON'T YOU STOP MUCKING AROUND!


Maurice Murphy wrote:
> As previously stated, I decided to do a complete new install of Feisty 
> using the final distribution CD.
>
> The installation went smoothly with no problems.  I had previously 
> backed up all my Firefox and Thunderbird files, so was able to quickly 
> restore all my bookmarks, emails and address books.
>
> But I did have some strange experiences.  A new 'disk' appeared on my 
> desktop.  On opening it, it appeared to be a second copy of the File 
> System, but it was not always in sync with the Places/Computer/File 
> System.  For example, I created an new directory in Terminal for my 
> removable drive.  This showed up in the latter, but did not show in the 
> Desktop 'disk' version of the File System.  Does anyone know why this 
> 'disk' has been added.  It wasn't present in my fully updated Feisty Beta.
>
> I also had problems with my removable ntfs drive being recognized for 
> read/write.  I eventually got this recognized by 'force'.  The system 
> complained that this drive was 'dirty'.  So I installed it on my XP 
> computer and did a Chkdsk.  No problems there.  When I reinstalled it 
> under Feisty, it was still considered 'dirty'.  I also did a ntfsfix to 
> now avail.  Anyone know why this might be and how it could be fixed 
> other than by 'force'?
>
> Managed to get all the restricted stuff going, but needed more than just 
> the gstreamer.  May be the prompts could have led straight to the 
> appropriate support and explanation file, where I eventually ended up to 
> ensure I had installed all the required goodies.
>
> I presume the Update Manager servers are working overtime at the 
> moment.  Things were really slow today! :-)  :-)  :-)
>
> The good news was that all my audio problems with Ekiga and GizmoProject 
> were solved with the new clean installation.  Boy, the audio quality 
> with GizmoProject is really excellent.  No echoes -- just a first class 
> effort.  I intend to stay with Gizmo from now on.  Skype cannot even be 
> loaded.  This is not a big problem for me as the audio quality was awful 
> and inconsistent.
>
> Congratulations to everyone involved in this noble effort.  So we're off 
> to the races with the Feisty Faun!  Best to all, Maurice
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