Ubuntu

If you want any help at all you're going to have to be more specific about your problems. What are you trying to run and what happens when you try to run it?

How ya doing, buddy?

Could you please post the contents of your fstab file? Either copy/paste it from a terminal or just upload the file. Uh, I guess it'd also help to see what's currently mounted and where. Bring up a terminal window and type the following:

df -h                   //and copy/paste the resulting text
OR
df -h > mountpoints       //and upload the resulting file "mountpoints"

For running applications, what are you doing? Are you downloading source code and compiling it? Are you downloading binaries? Unfortunately, I've never used Ubuntu (and I hated Debian) so I can't really help if it's an issue with their packaging system, but if your system is set up properly then there's no reason you shouldn't just be able to compile and run ZSNES.

btw, Gentoo's website is a pretty good resource for Linux information in general, although a lot of the documentation deals strictly with their "packaging system" called Portage. The nice thing about Gentoo, however, is that it mostly consists of scripts. I think I probably learned more about Linux just by installing Gentoo than I did from reading Linux for Dummies or from training courses in school. It may seem a little more complicated than Ubuntu, but I think you'll find it a learning experience. Just stay away from their graphical installer, as it's not quite ready yet.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

And....your fstab?

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Cyrus XIII

And here's an fstab, that'll let you read your NTFS drives on Linux as well:

Just wanted to emphasize the read. Don't try to write to them from Linux. That's just hazardous.

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