Network configuration and hard disk access

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:26:33 -0700
"Gautam Saaraswath" <cooldudegautam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi people am Gautam, a new user of linux.Am Using Ubuntu 7.10 and have
> trouble connecting to the internet. Am having trouble with Ubuntu's network
> configuration which it doesn't accept configuration as convinently as
> window. I have tried other flaovurs such as Kubuntu, fedora 9and so on but
> every flavour gives me the same trouble. Secondly a hard disk which is
> capable to work on both the system is something very convinent incase i
> wanna use it as an external hard disk, now Ubuntu doesn't recognise it while
> Fedora 9 does and am able to use it. Am told Ubuntu is good for bigenners
> but when i type su in the terminal and type my password it doesn't
> authenticate it. There was no prompt for root password during setup.
> Confused and agonised. please help.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Gautam
> 

In Ubuntu, we use sudo instead of su. There is some good information
about at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RootSudo

What kind of trouble are you having with the network configuration? Are
you using a wired or wireless setup? 

Someone else will help with the hard disk, since I don't know much
about it. They may help with the network, too, if you give the much
needed information to help out.

Good luck,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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