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Rob Beard writes: > jon.davey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> OK, the curser on my laptop running Vista just disapears. I spend ages >> trying to fix it cos there was some mp3s I didn't want to loose but loose >> the will to try any more and nip down to the newsagents, pick up a copy of >> Linux Format with a shiny new copy of the latest Ubuntu. Install it with >> absolute ease. Actually the easiest instillation I've ever done in fact and >> it's running a traet, looks really nice. That was gonna be it, just a nice >> little story about how much I like the new Ubuntu but I need a bit of advise >> on installing Java for Firefox. >> THe instructions are; >> 1. Install Java Runtime Environment. >> 2. Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla Plugins >> directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i386/ns7 directory of JRE 5.0 >> or later, or plugin/i386/ns610-gcc32 if you are using JRE 1.4.2. >> ....so, OK, fair enough. Except I don't know how to make a symbolic link. I >> don't expect it's too difficult. Should I google it? Or is it more complex >> that that? >> CHeers, JOn DAvey >> > > I can't see why you should need to create symbolic links for Java, I've > managed it by just installing sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-plugin. > > This should help... > > http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-741-installing-java-under-ubuntu > > This is assuming though that you're running the standard 32-bit version > of Ubuntu and not the 64-Bit AMD64/EM64T version (which from what I > understand you do need to do a bit more messing around to get Firefox > and Java to work together. > > Good to hear your experience with Ubuntu was good. Chances are you > should also be able to mount your NTFS partition in Ubuntu to retrieve > those MP3s too. The NTFS partition should pop up under places. It'll > probably ask for your login password when you select it but then as long > as Windows was shutdown correctly you should be able to mount it (if not > you'll need to run ntfsfix /dev/sdX (where /dev/sdX corresponds to the > partition number which Vista is installed on, you'll also need the > ntfsprogs package installed too). > > Rob > > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html ...thanks. not so sure about retreaving thoes files though. I told Ubuntu to use the whole drive during the partitioning. That would've formated the whole disk right? Cheers, JOn DAvey -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html