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Latch · 11-20-2004, 06:24 PM

Welcome.. glad you're deciding to try...

Just a quick note.. FC3 was recently released (I haven't updated the New To Linux post yet). You may want to give that one a shot, as it has newer versions of most things, and may fix some bugs before you encounter them.

1. You may have to be root to run mkbootdisk... I don't have the program installed on my system so I can't be sure. Some programs (for root-only) are stored in /sbin and /usr/sbin, which is (by default) not included in your path as a normal user. As root you'd have a different path, and those dirs may have mkbootdisk.

2. It's been a while since I've had a fat32 partition on my system, but I think I ended up mounting it with permissions for the user account I'd mainly access it with. i.e., my fstab line looked like:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win user,uid=1000,gid=100,rw 0 0

the "user" bit means that a user can mount and unmount that share (although likely not necessary for you, so you can just leave it out). The uid and gid are the user id and group id of who I want to own that mount. Type 'id' in a terminal window as the user you want to access the stuff as. They will list the uid and gid you want to use. The "rw" is probably already a default, but it just says "open for read-write" access.

3. Interesting idea. I haven't tried it myself. Mozilla seems to designate it's own unique directories for each instance (look in your ~/.mozilla/default, i.e. /home/csfilm/.mozilla/default). They are usually a random set of numbers and letters in the 8.3 format. I am not sure if you can force mozilla to read a specific one of those directories. Someone may have a better idea.

Besides that, I'm not 100% sure mozilla in linux writes it's data the exact same way mozilla in windows does. I can't remember where user plugins are installed, but if they're installed into that directory, it may/will cause problems between windows and linux.

I'm floundering here, maybe someone else can say better...

Good luck.

11-20-2004, 06:24 PM	#2 (permalink)
Latch In Your Dreams Location: City of Lights	Welcome.. glad you're deciding to try... Just a quick note.. FC3 was recently released (I haven't updated the New To Linux post yet). You may want to give that one a shot, as it has newer versions of most things, and may fix some bugs before you encounter them. 1. You may have to be root to run mkbootdisk... I don't have the program installed on my system so I can't be sure. Some programs (for root-only) are stored in /sbin and /usr/sbin, which is (by default) not included in your path as a normal user. As root you'd have a different path, and those dirs may have mkbootdisk. 2. It's been a while since I've had a fat32 partition on my system, but I think I ended up mounting it with permissions for the user account I'd mainly access it with. i.e., my fstab line looked like: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win user,uid=1000,gid=100,rw 0 0 the "user" bit means that a user can mount and unmount that share (although likely not necessary for you, so you can just leave it out). The uid and gid are the user id and group id of who I want to own that mount. Type 'id' in a terminal window as the user you want to access the stuff as. They will list the uid and gid you want to use. The "rw" is probably already a default, but it just says "open for read-write" access. 3. Interesting idea. I haven't tried it myself. Mozilla seems to designate it's own unique directories for each instance (look in your ~/.mozilla/default, i.e. /home/csfilm/.mozilla/default). They are usually a random set of numbers and letters in the 8.3 format. I am not sure if you can force mozilla to read a specific one of those directories. Someone may have a better idea. Besides that, I'm not 100% sure mozilla in linux writes it's data the exact same way mozilla in windows does. I can't remember where user plugins are installed, but if they're installed into that directory, it may/will cause problems between windows and linux. I'm floundering here, maybe someone else can say better... Good luck.