[Gllug] Advice needed on Ubuntu

[Chris Hunter]

Richard Kirkham wrote:

> However, I'd like to get user access to my "local" partition but can't
> because root owns it and won't allow me.

Use "su" and your user password.  You can then create extra users, 
passwords and so on.

> What I want to achieve in the end is:
> - to be able to change the password for root to something I choose and
> - to access my 'local' partition and finally
> - to get it to rip to mp3
> (the CPU's a VIA C3 1GHz Nehemiah but what ix86 is that?)

You should try Automatix: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=66563

It's a fully automated script that adds pretty much everything you could 
need to Ubuntu.

Chris

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