Hi,

I installed Linspire on a slave drive with a second partition, FAT 32. My primary drive or master is Windows XP. By installing Linspire after XP, GRUB made a boot loader 1.5 and I have dual boot. I want to use just the second partition of the slave drive as my location for downloading files from the internet and when I boot into Windows, I will be able to see the FAT32 partition on the slave drive.It works. I can see the FAT32partition on Linspire drive but I cannot direct any downloads to the second partition. Linspire said to do the following :

To mount the second partition in /dev/hdb, follow these steps.

1. Open the command at the prompt by clicking Launch > Run Programs > Utilities > Terminal Program

2. Type the following command to create a mount location.

# mkdir /root/back [ It can be a different location ]

3. Mount the partition to that location.

# mount /dev/hdb5 /root/back

4. Then check the '/root/back' folder.

I did this and when I go to to my computer hdb1-root-I see back listed. How can I now direct the downloads IN THE WEB BROWSER TO HDB5 ? I looked around under tools but don't see options to direct the downloads to partition 2 .The current version Mozilla does not have the option to change the default downloading path.

Linspire said the their current version of Mozilla doesn't allow me to direct downloads to second partition. I was able to see second partition in Linspire 4.5 but not 5.0. They further answered that all download are in the /tmp directory but It seems I can only find any downloaded files in download manager under tools but no files in the /Tmp directory.They aren't there. If I go to find documents and type in name of file I downloaded I can find the file in mnt/hda1/ directory.

Linspire suggested considering Opera for Linux. I think the Mozilla version of the web browser of 5.0 is different than 4.5.

I like 5.0 because itis better than 4.5 and a lot of CNR programs are built into 5.0 .

Can anyone help me straight out my problems?

Thanks

Arthur

you're asking a whole bunch of totally different questions in one there.

Basically you just want to save files in a web browser to somewhere else? just change the location in the preferences for mozilla. this will have absolutely nothign to do with partitions or anything. once you mount a partition somewhere, it becomes just another directory.

if i've missed the point here, please explain a little more concisely.

Chris,

The Mozilla browser Linspire uses is KDE 3.3.2 and this version doesn't allow me to set a location where I would like to see. Preferences has three locations. download manager, progress dialog, and don't open anything. So I am restricted in this version of Mozilla browser.

Are there any commands that I could enter in Konsole that will do what I want ?

Is there another browser that will give me the ability of selecting a location or a different version of Mozilla ?

All the info I listed before was the answers and suggestions from Linspire.

Thanks.


Arthur