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