couple of mandrake questions

[ngk]

ok....i have mandrake 10 all installed and everything is fine.

1. i got firefox installed but no matter what i chance if i reopen it it's default....i heard maybe i have to be in root to make changes stay???

2. i have a partition on my harddrive that is strictly files and what not, it's ntfs and it's /dev/hda2.....i've looked everywhere and tried modifying the /etc/fstab file but i still cant get into that partition...how do i go about it?

thanks in advance

[deuce868]

2.
mkdir /windows
mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /windows

[nonsequitur]

i'd reconsider changing that ntfs partition, unless you are only going to read from it in linux... ntfs writing may have improved, but i'm not really trusting of it. most peeps use a fat32 for saving data that will be used on both linux and windows.

i don't know what you are getting at in your first question.... your themes keep reverting after you change them?

[BillLeeLee]

1.) What kind of changes are you having problems with? Extensions? Installing themes?

2.) put it into /etc/fstab, and then do what deuce868 says.

Here's a line from my /etc/fstab

/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ntfs ro,noauto,umask=0002 0 0


It specifies that when I mount the drive, to mount it to /mnt/hda7. You'll have mkdir the directory that you want to mount it to.

Writing to NTFS is very dangerous and not recommended. With the native linux NTFS driver, the only thing you can do right now is read (which is perfectly safe), or modify a file and keep it the same size as before you modified it. Needless to say, NTFS write support is not there.

However, there is a software called Captive for Linux that allows you write to NTFS partitions and it uses a hacked version of the real NTFS driver from Windows.

[ngk]

ok i got the ntfs partition working.....i can read from it now....

the firefox thing is that i can install themes/extensions and customize it the way i want it then when i log back in everything is back to default....i think maybe i dont have permission to write to the config file so it doesn't save....any ideas?

[BillLeeLee]

If you're running Firefox 0.8, try 0.9; it doesn't give me permissions problems like 0.8 had, which required me to change ownership of Mozilla Firefox to my user to install stuff.