Ubuntu Questions

[KSoD]

Alright as i am still trying to learn my way around Ubuntu and all that i have a few questions.

Can you extract a Mult RAR Archive? I ahve some "files" i downloaded within XP and now when i try to extract them i get a error cause they are a multi RAR archive. So can this be done in Ubuntu?

Also what about burning multiple episodes onto a DVD like Convertxtodvd or Nero Vision can. Is there something like this for Ubuntu?

I really need these type of options. So i hope there is something that can be done.

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

Don't see why you can't do a multi-RAR archive, you have to install the package "rar" to get RAR support in the archive manager, but then it should work. As for DVD's, I don't burn DVD's on my computer, at least not video ones (rarely use them, occasionally burn an ISO or backup some files but that's it).

 

[KSoD]

Well when i try to extract the Archive it says that it is read only. But i know it works in Windows. It will extract a ISO to burn which i have done a few times already so no big deal there.

The burning of episodes isnt that big a deal. I can just boot back to Windows. Was just hoping to avoid that.

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

You could also try 7 zip for Linux, pretty sure they make that for Linux, not sure if it has a GUI like the Windows version or not, but it's an alternative to the Archive Manager that comes with Ubuntu.

 

[KSoD]

Well they have 7Zip and WinRar as well for Linux but they are command line only. I can barely navigate thru Ubuntu with a GUI let alone try to figure out how to run the Terminal. :laughing:

I figured it out. The NTFS drives are not mounted to be read/write accessable. Need some help on how to get them to auto mount with read.write access.

 

[brad8266]

What kind of device is your NTFS filesystem on?

 

[KSoD]

SATA Hard Drives. Internal.

Got it with this code.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g ntfs-config

That allowed the NTFS3G Config to be installed which allowed me to moutn the drives with read and write access to do what i wanted.

By making the drives writable i was able to extract those files from teh archive. It was the Read Only access that messed with me on that. Still need to find a way to burn some avi files to a DVD though. Maybe the Nero Linux will work??

 

[CalcProgrammer1]

What Ubuntu are you using!?!?! Ubuntu has had native read/write NTFS support since like 3 versions ago. Back in 06 I could side with you on the read only thing, as it was a huge annoyance for all of us...but now Ubuntu has had read/write NTFS for a while. Every computer I use it on (I use it on 4 PC's that have Ubuntu and NTFS partitions) read/writes by default when I open the NTFS drive (Ubuntu 8.04 32 and 64 bit editions).

As for video apps in Linux, not sure, I do all my video stuff in Windows (where I have Pinnacle Studio 9 Plus and Sony Screenblast 3.0), but I haven't done video stuff for years now, and I don't download TV or anything either (ok, once a year maybe I'll download an episode of Mythbusters if my friends say it's really good, but I watch it on my PDA anyways).

 

[KSoD]

I am using Ubuntu 8.04 on this PC. But for some reason it doesnt want to read and write to my NTFS drives. But that is sorted.

I have installed DeVeDe to try out. Most likely i will just use Windows and Convertx for that part. As it seems easier to use than DeVeDe.

But the NTFS thing realy was wierd. I know that i had support in 7.10, but when i installed 8.04 i didnt. So i had to force mount the drives on boot which worked fine but now i see that it was only read only access. But that is now sorted. Took a bit of work but it works. That is all i care about.

 

[Jayce]

As for the burning questions, have you tried k3b? I absolutely love that application. In fact, I like it so much, I'm going to set up a spare computer here in my office with Ubuntu just so I can burn DVD ISO image CDs for when I have to make copies of the software we have here.

Give it a shot. I'm not sure if it'll solve your issue, but I just personally prefer it and would recommend trying it out.