Jim, Travis, and James... Thank you for your replies. What I'm looking for is to have all my Firefox and Thunderbird files in a shared FAT32 partition. I'm not sure I'm ready to trust the Ubuntu side writing to an NTFS partition, and the Windows side has no idea what a Linux directory is. This requires that 1) none of the files (bookmarks, password lists, plug-ins, history files, email indices and files, etc.) be OS-specific and 2) both the installations use a pointer at a fixed location to say where the rest of the stuff is. I think (2) is satisfied, but I don't know for sure, as both FF and TB have left all sorts of junk around from older installations on XP.
What I don't want to do is keep separate copies of everything and try to synch them up upon reboot (too messy and too much chance that something may be missed, even with an automated system). I guess it's time to go back to the not-so-informative Mozilla discussion groups and beg for information again. :-( > Phil M Perry wrote: > >> My PC is dual-booted between Windows XP :-( and Linux (Ubuntu 7.10). I have >> Internet access on both sides. What I want to do is have a "common" >> image of both Firefox and of Thunderbird. That is, settings, bookmark lists, >> plug-ins, password lists, email archives, etc., etc. would live on a FAT32 >> disk partition visible to both sides. Whichever side I boot up on, the same >> bookmarks, plug-ins, etc. and my complete email archive would be there. >> Can this be done? Obviously, the binary programs are separate, but I'm >> hoping that the configuration and data can be shared. So, is there some >> fixed place that has a configuration file that says "find user configuration >> and data HERE" for both FF and TB? Can I repoint them to my shared >> partition, move my configuration and data files there, and operate >> seamlessly on either boot side? If I can do that, I could spend much more >> time over on Linux and much less time on that other system! Presumably I >> would have to keep version updates fairly closely in sync. Does anyone have >> any war stories to share? >> Thanks! >> _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
