Ubuntu post installation notes

From Julian Yap

This runs through some personal changes I usually make after making a clean install of Ubuntu. More customisations can be found in the Ubuntu category.

1 Give root a password
2 Mounting the Windows partition
3 TrueType fonts
4 Credits

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Give root a password

Initially root functions can only be attained by performing a 'sudo' command.

Give root a password so you can switch user to root.

sudo passwd

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Mounting the Windows partition

To mount C drive from Linux, as root add the following lines to /etc/fstab.

/dev/hda1       /mnt/c          ntfs    ro,umask=0222,uid=500 0       0

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TrueType fonts

# cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/arial.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/arialbd.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/arialbi.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/ariali.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/times.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/timesbd.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/timesbi.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/timesi.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/cour.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/courbd.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/courbi.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/couri.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/verdana.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/verdanaz.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/verdanab.ttf
# ln -s /mnt/c/Windows/Fonts/verdanai.ttf
# mkfontdir

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