Jaromír Mikeš schrieb: > in theory it should works .... just choose during installation of new > distro2 same partition you are using as /home on distro1. (not format this > partiion.... keep existing data) Assuming that your distro1 is also 64studio. > There are also some settings files hidden on your /home partition what can > be advantage or disadvantage. (e.g. bash, iceweasel) So when you change > something on distro1 it will probably appears on distro2 also. I personally > never tried this and probably never will because of that. And maybe there are > even more problems I am not aware. Hope someone else here give you more > detailed info.
I think Jaromír gave the complete answer. Basically this setup (can) work, but in practice it requires some maintenance and never works to 100% The reason is: when you use the same application in both setups, but with a different version in each, then the newer version might use a changed format for saving the profile data in the mentioned hidden files within the home directory, which might cause the older version of the same application either to malfunction or even to deem the profile information to be broken and completely erase it and replace it with built-in defaults. Especially sharing mail folders and browser bookmarks can quickly get problematic. Another option would be to separate your "work files" from your home directory, i.e. the documents, audio files, project data you are working on. Going this route, you'd use a separate home directory in each of your linux installations, but put your work files into a common shared partition which you setup such as to be mounted in each installation, preferable even under the same path (eg. /mnt/work/...) Of course, the basic problem with different program version remains the same (e.g. if you user different versions of OpenOffice). But in practice, typically you are actually working with just with a very limited set of applications, which gives you better chances to control the situation. In any case, it is not necessary to throw away your configuration when starting out with a new linux installation. Just make sure you have a backup of your home directory (especially including all those hidden files and configuration subdirectories below). Then, in the new installation, just copy the contents of your backup into the new home folder. Of course, this works best when you aren't logged in as this uses the moment you do the copy (typically you need to be root anyways, and often you have to change owner or UID on the files). I take it that you have some basic knowledge how to manipulate files and directories under *nix. hope this helps Hermann _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
