On Thu, May 10, 2007 3:07 pm, Roger Searle wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: >> On Thursday 10 May 2007 12:37 pm, Roger Searle wrote: >> >>> was definitely joking there - withholding the smiley or wink makes it >>> funnier (well at least it does for me) >>> >>> my mind is already made up on this subject. for this install anyway... >>> >>> >> So what did you decide Roger? >> > Well actually just at the time I was posting that comment, I was giving > some thought to a slight alteration to the plan. At work I am running > suse 10.2 and am quite happy with it, and don't really have the time for > the next few months to do anything differently there. > > So I had been inclined to stay with suse at home too, though my recent > (fairly limited) experience with Feisty Kubuntu on a couple of laptops > has me impressed with ease of installation and the fact that it "just > works" (if I ignore the failed attempt at resizing an NTFS partition). > > I am now thinking of a kind of dual boot arrangement with suse and > kubuntu so I can play more with the latter. > > Which leads to the question of how to modify my partitioning scheme . . > . Would the following be the right type of approach? > > swap 2GB > / for suse 20GB > / for kubuntu 20 GB > /home the rest? > or would I then need another ( /boot? ) partition? > is the 20GB big enough or is a little bigger a good idea? > >
Are you sharing home beween the two distros? If so be careful. Firstly you need to have the same user id NUMBER on both systems. (To see your user id number grep roger /etc/passwd or id roger ) > > > -- Nick Rout
