Vectorman
08-01-2002, 12:37 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Let me first say that I am very impressed with this site and it's wide base of knowledge. Now for a little background about myself.
I am The ISC (Information Systems Chief) for my Squadron. We are entirely Windows Based. After assumming this Post I found a growing dissatisfaction with Windows. So to combat this I have transfered all Computers in my HOME from Windows 2000 / XP to Linux. I am currently using "Mandrake Linux 8.2" and hanve loved it so far, but I have a couple questions.
1. I have a 2.5" USB powered Hard Drive. This is formated in NTFS (so as to conform to the Security Restriction at Work). I have installed it in my Main Linux box and found that the Computer recognized it and added a Folder under the /MNT folder on my System (/MNT/Disk1) unfortunatly it will not display any files or folders when double clicking on the Folder. Do I need to do something else or will Linux not read a Win2000 NTFS partition?
2. My second question is one about saving web pages. Yesterday I attempted to save a web page from the browser (Galleon with Gnome) I selected [File] then [SaveAs] a box came up that let me choose the Directory and the file name, I selected /home/driverjc/desktop with a file name of "Concert tickets" I did not type in an extension. When I attempted to re-open the file it gave me an error stating that there was not default viewer for compressed files. I then attempted to open it with the browser that it was saved with, but had no luck. After getting no-joy from the first attemp I saved it again. this time to /home/driverjc/ with a filename of tickets.htm, but I got the same errors. Is there a way to save pages from the internet useing the browser like you can in WINDOWS? If so can you out line the steps for me?
Let me first say that I am very impressed with this site and it's wide base of knowledge. Now for a little background about myself.
I am The ISC (Information Systems Chief) for my Squadron. We are entirely Windows Based. After assumming this Post I found a growing dissatisfaction with Windows. So to combat this I have transfered all Computers in my HOME from Windows 2000 / XP to Linux. I am currently using "Mandrake Linux 8.2" and hanve loved it so far, but I have a couple questions.
1. I have a 2.5" USB powered Hard Drive. This is formated in NTFS (so as to conform to the Security Restriction at Work). I have installed it in my Main Linux box and found that the Computer recognized it and added a Folder under the /MNT folder on my System (/MNT/Disk1) unfortunatly it will not display any files or folders when double clicking on the Folder. Do I need to do something else or will Linux not read a Win2000 NTFS partition?
2. My second question is one about saving web pages. Yesterday I attempted to save a web page from the browser (Galleon with Gnome) I selected [File] then [SaveAs] a box came up that let me choose the Directory and the file name, I selected /home/driverjc/desktop with a file name of "Concert tickets" I did not type in an extension. When I attempted to re-open the file it gave me an error stating that there was not default viewer for compressed files. I then attempted to open it with the browser that it was saved with, but had no luck. After getting no-joy from the first attemp I saved it again. this time to /home/driverjc/ with a filename of tickets.htm, but I got the same errors. Is there a way to save pages from the internet useing the browser like you can in WINDOWS? If so can you out line the steps for me?