Comments on: Dual Boot Your Firefox and Thunderbird on Ubuntu 7.10 Guty Gibbon http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2007/10/30/dual-boot-your-bookmarks-and-email-on-ubuntu-710-guty-gibbon/ Aikido, comics, eating well, information security, open source, mountain biking, and caffeine - this blog has everything! Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:57:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Poldi http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2007/10/30/dual-boot-your-bookmarks-and-email-on-ubuntu-710-guty-gibbon/comment-page-1/#comment-32488 Poldi Sat, 14 Jun 2008 15:31:17 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=117#comment-32488 Hi. Thx for this fine tutorial! It is working great :) Poldi Hi.

Thx for this fine tutorial! It is working great :)

Poldi

]]> By: jsast21 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2007/10/30/dual-boot-your-bookmarks-and-email-on-ubuntu-710-guty-gibbon/comment-page-1/#comment-19389 jsast21 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:23:03 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=117#comment-19389 Thanks very much. I do not know much about loading EXT3 drivers for windows, but I'm going to google it right now and hopefully will figure this out. I am also going to try saving my profile to my usb stick each time (I have portableapps Tbird on the stick) and maybe that will work. Thanks very much for the tip. cheers. Thanks very much. I do not know much about loading EXT3 drivers for windows, but I’m going to google it right now and hopefully will figure this out. I am also going to try saving my profile to my usb stick each time (I have portableapps Tbird on the stick) and maybe that will work. Thanks very much for the tip.

cheers.

]]> By: peter http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2007/10/30/dual-boot-your-bookmarks-and-email-on-ubuntu-710-guty-gibbon/comment-page-1/#comment-19332 peter Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:27:08 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=117#comment-19332 Unless your home directory is on a FAT32 or NTFS partition, or you load an EXT3 driver for Windows, you won't be able to access your Linux partition from Windows. Another option would be to use something like FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) to backup your Firefox profile, but I don't know if there's an equivalent for Thunderbird. Unless your home directory is on a FAT32 or NTFS partition, or you load an EXT3 driver for Windows, you won’t be able to access your Linux partition from Windows.

Another option would be to use something like FEBE (Firefox Environment Backup Extension) to backup your Firefox profile, but I don’t know if there’s an equivalent for Thunderbird.

]]> By: jsast21 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2007/10/30/dual-boot-your-bookmarks-and-email-on-ubuntu-710-guty-gibbon/comment-page-1/#comment-19319 jsast21 Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:21:13 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=117#comment-19319 Question though - I primarily boot to Ubuntu but there are still (rare) times I have to go into vista (so I would be going the other way with this solution). When I tried capheind's "-ProfileManager" way - windows would not let me see the linux drives. I didn't think they would be visible, but I wanted to give it a shot. What is the workaround here to link the window's version of TBird to my Linux profile from the Window's TBird profile manager? Thanks in advance. Question though – I primarily boot to Ubuntu but there are still (rare) times I have to go into vista (so I would be going the other way with this solution). When I tried capheind’s “-ProfileManager” way – windows would not let me see the linux drives. I didn’t think they would be visible, but I wanted to give it a shot. What is the workaround here to link the window’s version of TBird to my Linux profile from the Window’s TBird profile manager? Thanks in advance.

]]> By: peter http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2007/10/30/dual-boot-your-bookmarks-and-email-on-ubuntu-710-guty-gibbon/comment-page-1/#comment-18582 peter Fri, 04 Apr 2008 11:28:19 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=117#comment-18582 Ah yes. I confess I have never used profile manager, even though I've known about it since the Netscape days. Good advice! Ah yes. I confess I have never used profile manager, even though I’ve known about it since the Netscape days. Good advice!

]]> By: capheind http://blog.nikolaidis.com/2007/10/30/dual-boot-your-bookmarks-and-email-on-ubuntu-710-guty-gibbon/comment-page-1/#comment-18533 capheind Fri, 04 Apr 2008 05:25:01 +0000 http://blog.nikolaidis.com/?p=117#comment-18533 There is a somewhat easier way to do this. First pick which OS is going to host the profile information, then from the other Operating System run the Mozilla App (firefox or thunderbird) with the option "--ProfileManager" delete the default profile and create a new one. On the screen where you name your new profile there should be an option to set the directory to use, just put in the profile directory thats located on the other operating systems partition. There is a somewhat easier way to do this. First pick which OS is going to host the profile information, then from the other Operating System run the Mozilla App (firefox or thunderbird) with the option “–ProfileManager” delete the default profile and create a new one. On the screen where you name your new profile there should be an option to set the directory to use, just put in the profile directory thats located on the other operating systems partition.

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