Two problems. Oh hey, sorry, Hello there. I live in Port Elizabeth, South Africa and this is my third attempt to leave Windows very much in my past. Previous attempt was in 2001, but didn't work out due to hardware support with Mandrake back then. Then, about two years ago, tried Ubuntu 7.10 but left that because I couldn't get my mobile to work as a modem. Now I'm back and so far so good.
Two problems I have. My external hard drive is unmountable (I can never get Windows to stop using the drive so that I can safely remove it). I found previously that if I "safely remove" the hard drive via Windows, it is mountable in Linux from the start again. Seems in Linux one ALWAYS has to unmount a hard drive otherwise its spilled beans when you hook it up again. So, what can I do? This is the error message I get: Unable to mount the volume 'Media Mate' and the details to that message are: Cannot get volume.fstype.alternative.
Any ideas?
Other problem I have is with Evolution. I want to set it up to download my Gmail messages using IMAP, but for the life of me, I can not find the bit in Evolution where I manually set the port settings. Any help?
Thanks a million guys and gals. So far I think Windows will be history now.
Happy trails
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Evolution ports and External hard drives unmountable
by Inprogress » Wed Dec 16, 2009 4:01 am
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Re: Evolution ports and External hard drives unmountable
by jslick1jim » Wed Dec 16, 2009 8:13 am
Hello Inprogress
I don't use evolution but this should help. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingGmailWithEvolution#Create%20Gmail%20Account%20in%20Evolution
and as for unmounting your drive start windows and just shut it down normally and unplug your
drive after windows shuts down on its own. You should be able to access the drive in Ultimate Edition once you
boot up.
jslick1jim
I don't use evolution but this should help. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingGmailWithEvolution#Create%20Gmail%20Account%20in%20Evolution
and as for unmounting your drive start windows and just shut it down normally and unplug your
drive after windows shuts down on its own. You should be able to access the drive in Ultimate Edition once you
boot up.
jslick1jim
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Re: Evolution ports and External hard drives unmountable
by Inprogress » Wed Dec 16, 2009 12:09 pm
Thanks for the link slick. HAHAH, that sounds cool.
I thought I would have to do that bit with windows, will have to take it to a friends pc then. I should've listened to my instincts.
Thanks again.
Other than that, been enjoying it. I would like to move to a more lightweight distro once I am comfortable with linux and the command line. VERY much newbie.
Happy trails
I thought I would have to do that bit with windows, will have to take it to a friends pc then. I should've listened to my instincts.
Thanks again.
Other than that, been enjoying it. I would like to move to a more lightweight distro once I am comfortable with linux and the command line. VERY much newbie.
Happy trails
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