Steve Holdoway wrote:
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.
My experience of sharing /home/'me' is that it can be a problem
especially if you have 2 versions of an app each with its own 'format'
for .conf or similar files. To be safe I would use separate /home dirs
for each distro and link selected files/sub directories
Barry
Barry
