On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 09:01:19AM -0500, Matt Waters wrote: > Many thanks for all the feedback. I've been down the dual-boot road more > than a few times, and found it never quite worked for me. I used to have > a machine running Debian, and although it took me several times to get > it right, once I nailed it, it ran like a dream. I do have some music I > purchased from the iTunes music store, so I'll have to use this jHymn > program someone spoke of to strip off the DRM and get that working. I'm > taking my finals in a few hours, so sometime soon after that, I'm gonna > give Debian another try. Virtualization seems like a neat idea, but I've > had Cedega run Windows games on Linux before (even faster than they ran > on windows. =)), and supposedly, Transgaming has fixed a fair amount of > the problems with WoW that used to require messy hacks to get around. > Also, do any of you guys have any experience using an iPod as a > removable disk? I am going to back all my personal files up on my iPod, > and would need to know how to edit /etc/fstab in order to be able to get > at them. It's been a LOOOOOONG time since I've used Linux, so it's > prolly gonna take me a while to get back into the swing of things. You don't have to anything special to use the iPod as a disk under Linux. Just follow the directions for using gtkpod (or any other Linux iPod software). You just mount iPods as a removable disk to use them under Linux as either a mp3 player or removable disk. My fstab line is: /dev/sdb2 /media/ipod vfat noauto,user,sync 0 0 Depending on whether you are attaching the iPod through USB or firewire, you may also need to load a kernel module or two. -- Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ Never laugh at live dragons |