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[MarD]

Heyyo,

First off, I was converted to Firefox (not gonna mention any names, but you know who you are ), then? my boss tells me to check out linux cause he wants us to be linux specialists, and now? I'm like, a Linux convert. I already LOVE it compared to windows. But it's a little more confusing, and fellow Linux geeks? I need your help!

Ok, the version of Linux OS I've got on is RedHat's Fedora. It's core version 3.

I created a new user, I made it's main group as root, but it still won't let me do stuff like mount my other HD partitions. When I use the terminal it says: "mount: you must be a root user" I even logged into stuff that asks for your root password for System wise administration (which I'm guessing is the root login) but I still can't mount HD partitions...

I'm reading a book right now called "Running Linux" by some O'Donnald or something like that... and I havn't read that far, and I was hoping you guys could help me out by making me not have to read a whole chapter before understanding how to setup a new user by the terminal (this books old... all it knows is the original redhat linux ).

[EDIT]
Oh, and here's how my HD's are set up:

hda1 is my windows xp pro OS
hda2 is my fedora
hda3 is my linux-fileswap partition
hdb1 is where I keep all my files... format is ntfs.

and here's the command I'm using in the terminal to try and mount my main HD partition:

$mount dev/hda1 mnt/fle1

and even Firefox feels faster and cleaner than on windows... man, this conversion stuff's like, blowing my mind dude... o_O

[stefanhendriks]

i tried Linux. And i hate it!

[TruB]

never tried it.. want to though.. time is... its late...

[FrostyCoolSlug]

ok, some apps like mount are 'root only' commands, i'm not sure if fedora comes with it, but you might wanna try running the command using 'sudo' (Super-User do), this will run whatever it is as the root user. Other than that, you could try modifying the /etc/passwd file, and change your users uid to 0 (root) so you would log in with your username, but the machine would think you are the root user.

[FrostyCoolSlug]

as a side note, dont use redshat software, bloated and waste of time, try something like slackware, gentoo or do what i did, i ended up abandoning Linux for FreeBSD, seems so much more flexible

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

Originally Posted by FrostyCoolSlug

or do what i did, i ended up abandoning Linux for FreeBSD, seems so much more flexible

Aaaaaaaaaaaaah
Common sense. At last

*whistles as he sees Whistler around the corner*

[Rick]

Gentoo rox I rarely use windows anymore.

MarD try the command "su":

  su -

then you'll get root access and you can do whatever you want

And how is *BSD for desktop/games compared to linux?

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

terrible. At least I assume it is, I never tried using a BSD for desktop applications. It should not be much worse than Linux, it can even emulate Linux binaries natively ; however this one or the other are awfully bad at running games and such. Who said UNIX was a desktop OS anyway ?

[Rick]

Linux for the desktop is getting better and better IMO. The latest gnome/kde and openoffice versions prove this. And, although there are not many games, the games that are ported to linux(games made by ID(doom, quake, wolf, ET), ut series) run atleast for me as good er even better(doom3) on linux.

[Pierre-Marie Baty]

well that's good to know
When they'll be comfortable enough for everyday use and when I'll be able to find all the apps I need and not worry about library incompatibilities or badly written hardware drivers anymore, then maybe I'll switch completely the house to BSD. I wish I would have done that for a long time, but currently it's just impossible: the microsoft hegemony is everywhere...

*edit*
oh yeah, sorry MarD we're hijacking your thread... be sure to log in as "root" like the others say ; then you'll be able to use low level system commands like "mount".