Thread: XP - Linux dual booting suggestions

ok I am pretty sure I have rw permissions for my fat32 partition, but the make command still isn't working in this drive :S

Here is my fstab



# /etc/fstab: static file system information.

#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=1517e9e4-63a6-4795-a550-8ec8be9756b3 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=9f88da56-48d0-41e7-8f79-8d2e25c727ad /home ext3 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=aea5d29e-cd87-4aeb-a72e-5ec1239cb873 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda3 /media/MAIN vfat user,noauto,rw 0 0

it is /dev/sda3 which is the drive I am trying to install nightfall onto

Yeah the drive is read/writable, so that isnt your issue. This is just a guess here and im not 100% sure, but your problem may be because u need to specify the path of a certain dependency before compiling. So it knows where to look to make correctly. Like i said though im not 100% sure and it may or may not be your issue at all.

I dont know much about that program and hopefully someone will be able to help u with this. Your best bet would be to use Google and try and find out as much info about everything to see if that will help u. Sorry, but i just dont want to tell u to do something or give u bad advice on something that im not sure about.

if it needed a specific path surely it wouldnt work anywhere, but It did on the drive ubuntu linux is installed in. The main problem is this program is not popular and so isn't spoken about much.

Thank you for all the help with linux etc though, you have saved me so much time

UPDATE

I found a little work around, I installed nightfall into my home directory, then just copied the entire folder over. Close enough for now

New question though, is there anyway for me to not have to type sudo all the time now, even when making directories, its getting a bit old

NEW UPDATE

got it to install onto my fat32 drive. Was a permissions issue, had to use chown to make myself the owner of that partition and also needed to change fstab to this:

/dev/sda3 /main_drive vfat users,noauto,exec 0 0

Yes just use "root" user to do this. U are using "super user" [admin] and this is why u have to use "sudo" command. If u didnt enable the root account yet then this is what to do. To enable root account run this command in the shell > "sudo passwd root" then type and confirm a new password. Once u finished this u can run the command "su" to switch to root user. U may also have to edit the file "gdm.conf" as well to "AllowRoot=true" then reboot.

ok I seem to have a new problem now, I have managed to get my fat32 partition to automount when ubuntu boots, however it does seem that to be able to delete edit etc anything on there I have to unmount the drive and then remount it, then I am good to go......

making my head spin a bit

My fstab for the partition is:

UUID=A0E0-0EB2 /main_drive vfat rw,user,auto,exec, 0 0


KAY sorted that.

I do have a new question though, when using the package manager, is it possible to tell it where I want the programs installing? or does it just put them in the same place?

hmm... thats a really good question and one that i would like to know the answer to as well. I never had to or tried changing the location before and usually in many cases this is the /usr/bin dir. Im guessing it may be possible somehow though, but i have no clue how or what to do. Maybe try using "dpkg". Anyway, i want to know this to, so i will search around to see if its at all possible.

The reason for my asking is due to the size of my actual ubuntu partition is small when compared to the drive that ubuntu and windows shares. Id rather have the proggys on the shared drive to try and save space.

So far I havent found a way to do this and so have been having to download the sources to programs and compile them myself, BIT of a hassle. Let me know if you find anything :)

Yeah i understand. Im searching now to see if i can come up with something. I can get my way aroung Linux pretty well, but im no expert and still have a lot to learn. Ill post back here if i find anything. Also, one thing u can do to clean up your system is to empty the local repository of retrieved packages by running this command >

"apt-get clean && apt-get autoclean"