[engti]

hi,

I managed to logon using the vesa driver into my ubuntu, which it wasn't doing earlier.
Now I have the nvidia driver installer on my desktop, and I used terminal to run it using sudo.
It tells me that something called "ld" is missing.
Is this the universe/multiverse thing, cos i think i enabled those.

I also cannot access my ntfs partitions, cause somebody named "root" has the permission. i cant access it, or mount it or unmount it. Nothing, nada.



Help, if i have to go through another installation manual, i'll drown.

Thanks a lot.

My system spec is:
AMD 3000+
Asus A8-NE
nVidia 6600 PCIe
200 GB Hdd
1gb RAM

[awalker0878]

my linux/unix commands are a litty bit rusty but
open a terminal window
su -l
enter root password
fdisk -l
mkdir example1
mount /mnt/example /dev/hda1
cd /mnt/example1 assuming that is the partition/volume/disk that you wanted mounted
also if you want them to be mounted at startup (sorry your problably going to have to look at the manual again ) type vi /etc/fstab and enter the apporiate line (carefully of typo's it could cause system not to boot)

[awalker0878]

also selinux (i am not quite sure which version) causes issues with nvidia installer update selinux or disable it before install to see if that fixes the problem also

[engti]

It didn't really work.... said it didn't recognise the su -l command.

Thanks anyway, I've found a workaround, it's kinda clunky but it works.

Anyway I'm trying our suse linux now, so I've got like a whole new set of problems.

Lol

[saikee]

There is a "root terminal" in Ubuntu! Click it, give the password and become that guy "root" yourself.

In general you may run all the root-reserved commands by preceeding every Bash shell command by "sudo" (and supplying the password if needed) if this has been arranged by the root.