On Friday 20 September 2002 10:49 am, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

Guillaume:

I set the umask to 0444 as you suggested but this did not enable the fonts to 
be installed.  However I installed RC3 on my machine at work today and I was 
able to install windows fonts sitting on a vfat partition.  So the problem on 
my home machine does seem to be related to the fact that the fonts are in an 
NTFS partition.

Bob Rossana

> Le Vendredi 20 Septembre 2002 16:29, Robert J. Rossana a �crit :
> > I know this has been mentioned before but I am still unable to install
> > Windows fonts using DrakConf from an NTFS partiiton.  I upgraded to the
> > latest drakconf (9.0-5mdk) and it still does not work.  This was also
> > true in RC2.
>
> From what i've heard of (sorry, can't test myself), current installer
> doesn't specify specific options for NTFS partitions, resulting in default
> 400 perms for them. Just using option umask=0444 in /etc/fstab make them at
> least world-readable.

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