H Rick: On Sunday 15 June 2008 06:00, Rick White wrote: > Hi Rion, > > I have Dapper and Hardy (plus my /home directory) installed on > different partitions on my laptop (this is all Paul Flint's > handiwork). meaning you have an alternate /? How does that work? Chroot? Why not just lomount an .iso then?
> I like Hardy but keep Dapper around for a couple of
> reasons, the most outstanding is that Hardy comes with Firefox 3
> beta (recently upgraded to RC1) and the new browser is NOT yet
> compatible with my bank's online access.
Why not just install a separate FF? (1.5, in your case). That's what i did; put
it into
/usr/local/firefox and run it from the cli as a different user (i run it
as root). Each instance of FF has its own plugins and such and i generally
run FF under rion for basic surfing, listening to pandora, etc..
and under root for testing websites, web-applications, my local webserver etc..
Thats the nice thing about moz bin-dists, like mysql, they sit compartmentalized
under their own dir and dont interfere w/the rest of the system.
> Just wanted to warn you about a possible frying pan=>fire situation.
Is below the 'fire' situation?
> I have had problems sync-ing my my Evolution mail from Dapper to
> Hardy, also. This seems fixable, but isn't as yet. Otherwise, I
> can now migrate from D to H (skipping E-F-G, woo hoo!) at my leisure.
I used evolution for 18 months at work just to keep biz mail accounts separate
from
personal mail; i prefer kmail to evolution. So if kmail on h can backport
maildir
from kmail on e, i should be mostly good to go. I suppose one could ldd
evolution and
hassle with keeping/running an olderversion, or trying to export their
evolution maildir
into some 'generic' form that would be easily importable. Thanks for the tip,
i'll definitely
see what i need to grab before upgrading.
Rion
>
> Rick
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