Re: dual-boot redhat/debian
On Thursday 09 January 2003 05:33 pm, Robert Storey wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 07:42:15 -0500
>
> Gregory Seidman <gss+debian@cs.brown.edu> 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.
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