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How to protect PC from idiotic siblings? (long)
I have installed NT4 Workstation (SP3) on a dual boot with Win95. The two OS's are on two different physical hard drives and i have installed NT onto a FAT If you convert AFTERWARDS, all file permissions will have Full Control for Everyone. If you're going to take the trouble (and it's worth it) to convert to

CD and DVD speed, what is it good for?
You might consider though that by not using NTFS for XP you will lose some features of XP that rely on NTFS, notably file permissions (ha - who needs permissions anyway, just let anything write to Install redhat, making sure the bootloader (GRUB or LILO) is isntalled to the MBR. Voila, dual boot system. Adam.

Two Drives question
NOTE: Granting either account Administrators group file permissions does not implicitly give permission to the system account. The system account's permissions can If so, you should know that, for example, installing Windows 98 and Windows 2000 in a dual boot scenario SHOULD be installed on separate partitions.

file permissions and /etc/fstab
Jody L. Whitlock tierscheiss1...@hotmail.com microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support Not true, there's some legacy programs that people still have to use that will not run under NTFS due to the file permissions and such. I ran into this at work, ended up spending a week trying to figure out all the right file

NT and FAT32 - (long post)
I have a dual boot laptop (xp and Linux). Been using linux since last june and nowadays I rarely boot into XP. I can do all everyday stuff better, multimedia, get their own home directory and can not touch the rest of the system.Only the Root (ie You) would be able to play with file permissions and system setup.

Change my school OS...
(I have a large HD) I primarily use my computer for gaming but want NTFS because of file permissions. And simply out of curiosity: even if I didn't want know that XP has native support for dual booting ... but I'm wondering what advantages (if any) exist in using a utility such as Partition Magic 7 to dualboot.

XP and Linux Dual Boot
Unless you're really worried about file permissions, it might just be better to make the whole thing fat32.. This way in case a certain file(s) get killed in your win2k setup, you can replace them easily. Or better yet, install win98 and win2k on two separate 2gb fat16 partitions and have a common fat32 drive for

Can't find host.MYD
It's also possible that the file permissions the ntfs driver is passing back are too restrictive. Aha. This is your problem. I just peeked at the ntfs section of mount: Mount options for ntfs: [...] uid=value, gid=value and umask=value Set the file permission on the filesystem. The umask value is given in octal.

This newbie can't login
If you have file permissions on your D: drive then E: should also be NTFS. Boot into NT4 and move the data to E: Once the D: partition is empty then boot off the Any recommendation? Read the URL given. Seems like the NT4 & Win2K dual boot is not encouraged. Actually it's my temp solution :-) Thanks in advance!

File permissions on FAT32 slave
The file permissions associated with the Write Attributes special permission are ____. A: Read, Write B: Full Control, Modify, Write <<---- Ist meines Erachtens ______ Digitally signing a file guarantees the file comes from the source that it claims to be from. What technique is used to provide digital signing

Sharing partition
MYD' (errno: 2) 040508 11:10:24 mysqld ended But, the file host.MYD is definitely in the /share/mysql/data/mysql/ directory, although it appears to be 0 bytes (?). I figured this might be a file permissions error, so I've tried changing the owner for all the mysql files to 'mysql' (group is currently 'root') and

_Wanted: a basic, stable OS!
Bizzare DOS problem file permissions Re: adduser problem Re: file permissions Re: tar.gz file extensions Re: Bizzare DOS problem linux swap partition id ..... I am using system commander to dual boot linux/win95 (uhg, I would not have win95 if my darn cd-rw/scsi would work in linux, 1 point for bill (1point=100$)).

FAT32 - Is anything compat with it?
The error I got from CHMOD was along the lines of: "Changing file permissions: Read Only" If it turns out I can't change the file, I have a copy of Red Hat 9 lying like parition magic to create a new partition, install RedHat on the new partition, let it do its thing and use the linux boot loader to dual boot?

file permissions
I need to dual boot Windows 95 sadly with Lilo and it says permission denied when i try to access lilo.conf. Linux is like unix, it uses file permissions. The /etc/lilo.conf file can only be written to by the system administrative user, "root". Read some lilo documentation before you login as root and actually do

win 98 se, win 2k or XP which one ?
My only question about this is: Is there a way to backup/restore/move the data on the IDE disk to the SCSI disk that will preserve the user accounts, mail accounts and file permissions? I would really hate to have to re-install from scratch and re-do all that I did so far. Here is what I was thinking: * Solution 1:

Dualboot
... deltree c:\progra~1 and a del on all files in the root except for the winNT dual boot files (or for awhile there I was using System Commander which I'd keep). NT 4 became unbootable due to changing file permissions in win2k (and yes NT 4 had SP 5) I changed to current partition blasting the old partition table.

Newbie questions (a few topics) for HP Omnibook 6100
I dual boot with Windows XP, and the Downloads partition is FAT. Up until now, I've been using sudo nautilus to change my files. I'm using Fedora Core 5, and my current entry for /dev/hda5 is something like : /dev/hda5 /Downloads Defaults 0 0 If fat then it needs to be /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,users

Dual Boot Win98se/Win2000 pro
... co...@beyondboxes.com (Colin Anderson) wrote: This is a problem on any dual boot system without encrypted filesystems. I don't know what people expect out of file permissions. It's been pretty clear to all but the most clueless for many many years that file permissions can be easily subverted by booting a

Dual boot... minor glitches encountered... progress!
Running a computer with WinNT WS 4.0 as a file server, you have to partition the hard drive for NTFS for file permissions. For setting file permissions, you need a NTFS partition instead of a FAT partition. You need a FAT partition if you want to dual boot. You do this through User Manager, Disk Manager and Network

File permissions on FAT32 slave
Ben Smithurst b...@scientia.demon.co.uk sol lists freebsd questions Paul Seeger wrote: I have just installed bsd on my machine. its a dual boot setup on a 1.6 this does not work from either the $ or # prompt. i tried to change the permissions on sysinstall and the system says that my file system is read only.