On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Renier Morales wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:58 -0400, Phil M Perry wrote: > > >> The big problem (that requires me to dual boot) >> is that all my email, Firefox configuration and stuff, etc. are still on >> the Win >> side, on an NTFS partition. Is the NTFS support in 7.10 good enough to >> confidently mount that partition (my Win C: drive) R/W and let Crossover >> take care of everything? > > You don't have to mount it R/W. If you are using Firefox (and friends, > e.g. Thunderbird) for you web and email, you can just mount and copy > your configuration stuff over. I'm sure you can find information on the > Internet on what to copy and how. Of course, I assume you are > considering switching to Linux for good. > In case you are not, mounting NTFS R/W can be done. There are NTFS > drivers you can install for this (if they don't come with the Linux > kernel yet). Then you can probably just run Firefox/Thunderbird natively > in Linux and point them to the right profile dir on the NTFS drive. But > all that can be tricky and risky. Safest is to switch to Linux. Cant help with your other questions but I do use Thunderbird email for both Windows and Linux partitions on my laptop as Renier suggested and it works well. I created an NTFS partition named 'share' and put my email profile there, then pointed thunderbird from both OS's to that profile. I found the information online, there was some trial and error but did get it to work. You have to edit profiles.ini as well as the Server and Local settings. I used it with ubuntu 8.04 and now with 8.10 beta...havnt tried it with 7.10. My experience with Crossover Linux has been positive. The last thing I needed to get working in Linux to be windows free was Quicken on my desktop at home. I downloaded Crossover and had many problems and could not get it to work. I emailed them and they made some suggestions but nothing helped. Finally they gave me access to a beta site and I downloaded it from there and it worked perfectly. What I really liked is that they worked with me until I got it working. john > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium > Sep 3 - Porkchop - The Areas of My Expertise > Oct 1 - Ubikeys > Oct 4 - Linux Fest > Nov 5 - Releasing Open Source Software > Dec 3 - TBD > > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Sep 3 - Porkchop - The Areas of My Expertise Oct 1 - Ubikeys Oct 4 - Linux Fest Nov 5 - Releasing Open Source Software Dec 3 - TBD
