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In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest.

The ten sections of the course include: introducing Ubuntu; exploring the Ubuntu desktop; using the Internet; using OpenOffice applications; Ubuntu and games; customising the desktop and applications; making the most of images and photos; playing music and videos; ubuntu help and support; and partitioning and booting.

Download Desktop Student Training Guide from here

Download Desktop instructor Training Guide from here

The course falls under a Creative Commons licence and people are welcome to modify and create additional content.

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If you want to Mount NTFS VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk) read/write follow this procedure.

Vmware server comes with a little utility to mount the VMware virtual file systems called vmware-mount.pl. This utility works pretty well but mounts all NTFS partitions as Read Only!

Outlined below is a process to mount .vmdk files Read/Write.

Requirements

vmware-loop
nbd module
ntfs-3g

Vmware-loop is provided by the free vmware server. Instructions for installing can be found HERE.The nbd (Network Block Device) module should be provided already by Ubuntu.

Install Ntfs-3g in Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

This will complete the installation

Configure VMware Disk

First One is to load the nbd module

sudo modprobe nbd

Next we use vmware-loop, the “Virtual Hard Disk to Network Block Device mapper”. This is done using vmware-loop /path/to/VirtualDisk Partition# Device. For example

sudo vmware-loop /home/MrFSL/VirtualDisk.vmdk 1 /dev/nbd0

Finally we open a new terminal and mount in the usual way

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/nbd0 /mnt/

Common Problem with Solution

Problem

If you are having permission issues you might want to adjust permissions on the mount point or device

Solution

sudo chmod 777 /mnt
sudo chmod 777 /dev/nbd0

When you are done unmount with a simple

sudo umount /dev/nbd0

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