On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:44:46 -0700 Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm planning a system that has a few different Linux distros that I > > want to try, in addition to Debian. Seems like a good thing to have > > separate partitions to share between them. First order > > approximation was: > > > > /home > > /usr/local > > /boot > > > > so all distros can share things like kernels. Sharing /boot will only work if your kernels don't have modules- because the modules will want to live in /lib/modules which will still be distro-specific. > > But then I realized /home > > wouldn't do since different distros have different versions of this > > and that, and therefore have different dot files. > > Not sure why this would be a problem. Newer versions of programs are > often backwards compatible with the config files that reside in /home. > If not, usually the file changes names. Personally, I would want to > share /home most of all. When I upgraded from Mandrake to Debian a couple of years back, I brought my home partition along for the ride, but found that I had to make some changes. For one, most of Mandrake's X programs lived in /usr/X11R6/bin, and in Debian they lived in /usr/bin, so I had to adjust all of my configuration files that referred to the X programs (generally for launch bars and the like.) -- I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. My key was last signed 10/14/2003. If you use GPG *please* see me about signing the key. ***** My computer can't give you viruses by email. ***
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