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<H2><A NAME="s8">8.</A> <A HREF="Linux+WinNT.html#toc8">Linux accompanied with Windows 2000 and Windows XP</A></H2>
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<P>2005-10-09</P>
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<P><EM>Recently I had a hard-disk failure and my more_than_a_year old
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Linux/Windows 2000 home system disappeared. When considering what to
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have on a new purchased disk, I decided to try Linux with both Windows
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2000 and Windows XP.</EM></P>
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<P>In short, the new disk was of 40 GB and I made a half of it (20 GB)
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a NTFS partition for Windows XP. It became so called C: disk. The
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second partition of 10 GB (FAT32) became D: disk of Windows 2000. As
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usual, you have to repeat installations of Microsoft products for
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several times - before they even start behaving partly as you expect
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from them. To be more precize, it looked that Windows 2000 had to be
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installed <EM>before</EM> Windows XP, in order its boot entry got
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a part of XP's list of boot entries (If I remember, I tried it the
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opposite way and it didn't work).</P>
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<P>Then I used the remaining 10 GB to install Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo) and
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I made it without problems - The only minor issue was that a try of
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disk-type installation where Linux files were placed on an existing
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NTFS partition failed because Linux setup actually did not manage to
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locate installation files on a NTFS partition. (That was why I made
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Windows 2000 installation on a FAT32 file system - because later I
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could use it for Mandrake 9.1 disk-type setup).</P>
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<P>So far - so good. One of the main things I wanted to make working
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within all three environments was the e-mail client. You bet, an another
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open source solution was available: the Mozilla suite. For Windows
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operating systems I used Mozilla 1.7.11 and for Linux I used Mozilla
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1.6 (an older xft version - some newer ones I was not able to install).
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And, as usual for me, I wanted all of them to share my mailbox files,
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i.e. I wanted to access my incoming emails from all and each operating
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system - booted at the time.</P>
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<P>In order to make that possible, I chose Mozilla under Windows 2000
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(FAT32) to become the 'central location' for saving the mailbox files.
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That means I had to make some changes within other two Mozilla's
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configurations - to make them capable to read/write from/to the first
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chosen mailbox location (FAT32). For Linux I did the following:</P>
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<P>Instead of keeping an 'original' Linux-native location:
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<PRE>
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/home/misko/.mozilla/default/fydeba98.slt/Mail/solair.eunet.yu
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</PRE>
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I changed to this mounted one:
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/mnt/win_d/Documents and Settings/misko/Application Data/Mozilla/Profiles/default/oeu1tmbd.slt/Mail/solair.eunet.yu
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</PRE>
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</P>
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<P>As a result of that change, now it is possible for me to download
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email messages from within one O.S. - then to read them from another
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O.S. - and finally reply/send the email from the 3rd one environment.
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The only minor drawback is that each operating system is likely to
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'remember' only its own last known state of Mozilla's Mail & Newsgroups.
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In order to get a 'refreshed' state of e-mail folders, a user has to
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click on a mailbox name. Another solution is to activate an option of
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'Compact all folders ...'.</P>
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<P>What belongs to my 'wish-list' now, is to continue upgrading all
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three Mozilla's (at least that old one v1.6 that runs under Mandrake).
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It makes me wonder if I could use a 'regular' one (instead of xft's)
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- although I remember that older regular's were producing awful fonts
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under Linux environment. I am not sure if things got improved.</P>
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<P>The second important task is to install one of the most popular radio
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amateur software, also an open-source, called LinFBB (FBB for Linux).
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More details related to that you can find in another Linux manual: the
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<A HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/FBB.html">FBB</A>HOWTO.</P>
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