Alan Pope wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 22:40 +0000, alan c wrote: > >> What I would like to have is separate and different desktop >> configurations for each installation, and would be grateful for >> suggestions about how I now arrange for a different desktop >> configuration for the 6.10 version. >> > > > Well of course the blindingly obvious answer is to have separate > /home directories.
Thanks Alan, yes, I suppose I should have originally done that and then also mounted the 6.06 home-606 in a distinctive way from inside 6.10 Ah well, it seemed like a good idea at the time. > You could do that one one of the installs (the newer one?) by > temporarily by editing the /etc/fstab and commenting out the line > referring to /home. Do this in single user/recovery mode, then make > sure it isn't currently mounted (umount /home) and make a home > directory (mkdir /home) and make a home directory for your user > (mkdir /home/alan) then change ownership of it >(chown alan:alan /home/alan) thanks. (A first time for me with chown and group) > Of course replacing all occurrences of "alan" with your user name. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
