On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:32:05 +1200 (NZST) Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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 > ... and the suspend stuff won't work as you're sharing swap. I would share /home, and work on that proviso.
