Hi Rion, I hope Flint's explication of my system satisfied your immediate questions, so anything I have to add now is in the category of "gilding the lily". Nonetheless, you were kind enough to reply to me and I shall do the same, never unaware of the fact you have forgotten more than I have time left in life to find out, so thanks (to all) for your patience.
I never considered downgrading FF3 in Hardy for the simple reason that I wanted to be a guinea-pig and play with slick, new, but iffy reliability, since I could reboot into Dapper and use FF2.0.0.14 and all my two years of unorganized bookmarks were right there, etc. It was the path of least resistance, I suppose. I only tinker with things when I can't avoid it... (chicken!) I should add that this is my only machine (save for the WinNt4 Dell 233,64MgRAM I still have from Stone Environmental!), so I like having one dependable OS and one to experiment with. Y'all can prolly think of a hunnerd ways of doing this, but I'm still tryin' not to fall out of the saddle, much less run the race. 8) I must apologize to Paul for suggesting that the Evolution problem was his fault. I gave him incorrect info, and he had already noodled out the solution after chatting. His reputation should not be sullied by my clumsy oversight in phrasing. Thanks for giving me a lot to search for, and learn. I may be slow, but I'm curious... Rick --- Rion D'Luz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > -- > email: rion_at_dluz.com > web: > http://dluz.com/Rion/ > AIM/Jabber/Google: > riondluz > Phone: 802.644.2255 > http://www.linkedin.com/pub/6/126/769 > > I don't believe in reincarnation, but I did in a previous > life. >
