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I have recently installed linux (Xubuntu) in a dual-boot configuartion with windows. I have installed Celestia in both linux and windows. Is there a way to modify the linux Celestia .bin to look for the Celestia folder in a different location than the default. I have the windows Celestia installed in a FAT 32 partition that is accessable from linux, and would like to be able to have just one folder with all of my add-ons in it rather than have to duplicate it.

Yes, you need to do two things.

1. Look in celestia.cfg you should see a line to set the location of the "Extras" directory, and set it to your shared location in each install

2. Migrate any customizations you made outside of the "extras" directory to reside in "extras". This will often involve using the "modify" command within ssc's to modify existing definitions within the "data" directories.

I do this same thing with linux and windows and I also share the extras folder via the cfg file. But fat32 drives have limited capabilities. I use one for a tmp read/write dir to share files between the 2 systems.
So I also use symbolic links. My linux system uses a NTFS driver so all of the win folders are accessable. The NTFS folders are read only though. What I do is create new empty folders in my linux version's extra dir and copy the ssc/ctx files and create a symbolic link to the main folder.
My dir tree looks something like this.
Linux/celestia/extras/mars/textures/medres/: In the mars folder I have a ssc file thats read/write. In the medres are the ctx files and a symbolic link to the folders with the textures.

In short if you want linux to use a folder that already exists create a symbolic link


In your case you could try something like this
The cfg file lets you declare multible extras folders


cartrite

in fedora 5 (linux) the kmod-ntfs mod will allow you to wright to windows from linux ( this is still exparimental) read and wright BUT NOT CREATE A NEW FILE to your ntfs dirve

also see the NTFS Linux kernel driver hear

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/component/opt ... /Itemid,1/