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    chrishall57

      Just a post to say Hi!

      Not used Antix, or GNU/Linux for many years, used to post under the same name on the old forums.

      Browsing the mags in the supermarket the other day decided to buy a copy of LinuxFormat and give it a go again. Decided the Mint offering on the DVD wasn’t that good and remembered Antix from a long time ago.

      Have downloaded and burnt the Antix iso to DVD and created a bootable USB. All is working well aside from the wlan0 interface and mounting the Windows partition isn’t being persistent so might post about that if I can’t fix it.

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      caprea
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        Hi chrishall57, welcome to the new antixforum and nice you found your way back !
        If you like to open a new thread for wlan please post there, if possible, the output from inxi -zv8 for giving more information.
        There’s a useful video about wifi
        https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/wifi-with-connman-antix-19-2/#post-41036

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        chrishall57
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          Thanks caprea!

          I did find that video when trawling the forums, will try it later.

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            Hi and welcome.
            Permanent mount of the Windows partition (assuming the drive is permanently connected) can be achieved by editing your ‘/etc/fstab’.
            Anyway, if you decide to edit it manually, always do a backup prior to any change!

            BTW, Win (10) fast startup (or some other feature like that) may give you a read-only access because of risk of possible corruption.
            That’s what mount
            mount -r -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdxX <path-where-to-mount>
            complains about when I occasionally mount it.

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            Dave
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              BTW, Win (10) fast startup (or some other feature like that) may give you a read-only access because of risk of possible corruption.
              That’s what mount
              mount -r -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdxX <path-where-to-mount>
              complains about when I occasionally mount it.

              Indeed, I am in the habit of disabling this feature when installing linux dual boot.
              If I recall correctly it is a checkbox in the power settings utility from the control centre.
              Sometimes this will magically re-enable itself.
              Holding shift and clicking shutdown in the menu should also cause full shutdown.
              You can also make a batch file with a regedit merge to disable the fast start feature and perform a full shutdown via the shutdown command. The regedit merge can also be added to startup if you trust it enough to ensure the fast startup feature remains disabled.

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                Ona them thar yankees eh ? “mornin y’all” is that thar korrecto English !
                Good to see you back to the best 😉

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                  @chrishall57, welcome back to antiX. You’ve been only on Windows for awhile?, or another Linux Distro?

                  I used to set up mount points for Windows drives. It was easier in the 2000/XP/Vista/Win7 days. It’s harder now with Windows 10, but lot’s of people still do it and we can help. I decided it was easier to use a file server on the LAN and I keep most everything on the shared file server. I can get at all my files from either Linux or Windows. I don’t worry about mounting Windows partitions on dual boot machines any more. Or, I setup a separate partition to share between all the OS’s on the machine.

                  Seaken64

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                    No Yankee here, east of the Atlantic!

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                    chrishall57
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                      Hi seaken64, thanks for the welcome!

                      Was using Linux dual back pre Mandrake 8, then went Linux only for about 4 years, then back to dual boot, then to Windows only. Now being drawn back to Linux!

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                        Very good. I played with Mandrake a little, and Mandriva and Mageia. I tended to have older equipment so I landed on Vector Linux and then antiX and MX. Still use Windows everyday also. I understand being “drawn” to linux. I also am drawn to experimenting with linux. I tend to get irritated when I have to fix Windows but I enjoy tinkering and experimenting with Linux.

                        seaken64

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