I am new to Linux. I found the
New To Linux? Want To Try It? Read here! thread to be very helpful. Thanks a bunch to all who contributed to it; your efforts are appreciated!
I installed Fedora Core 1 a few weeks ago, and am so far very impressed but I have a few questions.
1. How do I make a boot disk?
I had to re-install the OS, and the second time round I didn't make a boot disk, and of course my original one does not work now. After a search on google I found I was to use the mkbootdisk command, but I got a "command not found" error. (Strangely there is still a man entry for this command).
Do I have to install a package to get this utility? If I can't do this, how can I make a boot disk?
2. How can I grant write permission on my windows partition?
My system is dual booted with windows. I have one of my windows partitions (FAT32) mounted under linux as /mnt/win and I can read files from it perfectly. However, I cannot write to this partition without root privledges, but would like to be able to access it as a regular user, but chmod fails:
[root@localhost win]# chmod 777 newfile.txt
chmod: changing permissions of `newfile.txt' (requested: 0777, actual: 0755): Operation not permitted
[root@localhost win]#
3. Can I have Mozilla use the same profile under Windows and Linux?
I would like to have the same bookmarks, history, and settings enabled when I run Mozilla under either OS. (Obviously I would need to solve the permissions problem above) What I would like to do is to move my Windows Mozilla profile onto the shared partition (its currently on a different partition), and then set up Mozilla under Linux to use this profile. Can this be done? And more importantly
should this be done? Is it a bad idea?
That's all my questions for now. Thanks.