Dual booting FC2 with FC1
Gerry Tool
gstool at earthlink.net
Fri May 21 01:33:57 UTC 2004
Robin Laing wrote:
> Gerry Tool wrote:
>
>> Robin Laing wrote:
>>
>>> Gerry Tool wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dave wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>> What about issues with ~/ config files if you want to share /home
>>> between FC1 and FC2? Will there be problems?
>>>
>>> I am looking at putting FC2 on a partition but use the same /home
>>> directories until I have FC2 fully configured. My wife would kill me
>>> otherwise. :)
>>>
>> My solution to this problem is to make a separate /lnxdata partition
>> on which I keep everything except config information which goes in
>> /home. Then I let there be a separate /home within the / partition of
>> each install and just use the /lnxdata to do all data sharing. If you
>> want to share something that is in your old /home in the new one, just
>> mount the old / partition and make a link in your new /home to
>> whatever it is in your old /home. For example, I link to the
>> evolution folder in my FC1 /home to use the same one in my FC2 /home.
>> Then I never need to worry about incompatible configs, and the
>> /lnxdata partition carries on from install to install with all my
>> persistent data.
>>
>> Another benefit is that the baggage from old configs doesn't get in
>> the way of changed configuration file formats in the new install.
>>
>> Hope this is useful.
>>
>> Gerry Tool
>>
>>
> I see a great benefit in this if wanting to test other distros as well.
>
> I do see a problem if (as in my case) another user creates files and
> directories in their home directories. But this is an education issue.
>
> I like the idea and I will have to do some moving as I presently have
> /home as a md0 partition. I try to put all my data into one
> subdirectory. Of course applications create their own directories by
> default.
>
> At work we use nfs home directories and I have run into some problems in
> the past.
>
> Thanks.
>
I'm glad you found it useful. As you suggested, I do also find it
useful to have the persistent data available in other distros I'm trying
out.
Gerry
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