I'm starting to get the hang of it...but there are still issues that I cannot comprehend.
'mount' for one... How on earth, will the linux world ever get to a point, where they have the same amount of ease as windoze does? When it comes to 'drives' HDD/USBSticks/Zips whatever... 'mount' is your worst enemy. Mine at least!
Here is the story: I have an external harddisk, enclosed in a box with a USB2.0 connection. Obviously, I want it to communicate with my Linux! I plug it in and knowing that 'mount' is the key, I start Googling for 'howto mount usb hard disk'.
Great sources of knowledge came towards me, but none gave me the clue I needed. While struggling for hours, I started getting a little bit impatient, and started 'shouting' (inside). Finally I found some newsgroup answer, talking about 'fdisk /dev/sda' <- this little command will give you a menu, if there is something attached to /dev/sda (normally SCSI drives, that's another story) and pressing [p] will give you partition information. The clue it gave me, was that my External HDD has 2 partitions. This means, if you need partition 2, you'd have to tell it to mount on sda5 instead of sda1/2 or 3..... Nice! It never occured to me that I have two partitions, and why would I give a sheit!, just give my drive som sort of nice standard name like 'hdd1..10'
Well I had it working 2 seconds after my finding, and now I'm smiling again :)
Gave the 'KDE' chat client 'KoPete' a try, it works great! Now my friends are smiling too...
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