> 2. Re: Firefox/Thunderbird Startup Issue (Marcos Guglielmetti)

> > First off - my install (knoppix) went  smoothly in spanish though i have
> > some minor locale issues im sorting out. Thanks for your help Marcos.

> Well... the recomended style is begginer, or Debian... Knoppix is almost like
> the live-cd style: I never used it... but, it could work for you, I dont
> know...

Why is that option included? Will this choice inhibit me from upgrading?

> > I have installed Firefox and Thunderbird and when I try to open either I
> > recieve a error message stating "Firefox/Thunderbird could not be started
> > as another instance of mozilla-fireforx/thunderbird is running. Close down
> > this applications process and try again."

The solution was that the mounted drives were read only. fstab needed to be edited to have ntfs-3g and write enabled.

It thought that another process was running it because it couldnt write to it and root owned it.

Now all works and my system rocks thanks Marcos you are a champion.