On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:33 pm, Robert Storey wrote: > On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:42:15 -0500 > > Gregory Seidman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ignoring, for the moment, why I would do such a thing, I want to set > > up a machine (laptop) to dual-boot both Redhat 8.0 and Debian > > (testing/unstable mix). I'd also like to share as much as possible > > between them. I can obviously share the entire /home directory. > > There are some major annoyances in sharing a /home directory between two > distros. Redhat and Debian may have different versions of KDE (or > Gnome, Blackbox, etc) installed and different desktop settings. The big > problem is with hidden files/directories like .bashrc, .kde, .Xdefaults > and so on, which control these settings.
When I was making the transition from mandrake to debian, I set aside a couple of small partitions (~250MB) for home for each distribution, specifically for those dot files. I used a third partition mounted under Documents for all my working files, and linked in a few directories (like .mail). Worked well for the month or so it took me to make the transition. -- First Impressions are Bunk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
