Hi Marius, On Sunday 03 September 2006 06:16, Marius Roets wrote:
On Sunday 03 September 2006 02:47, Carl Hartung wrote:
Huh? Mine is definitely a daily work machine with:
XP - for those times where importing/exporting just doesn't cut it 9.3 - my previous daily desktop, kept current in case my present one dies 10.0 - my current daily desktop 10.1 - my next daily desktop, will 'settle in' when I'm confident it's 'tamed'
Could you give some more information on the sizing and partitioning you use for this setup. I also recently crossed into the territory of 3+ OS's on my laptop, and I'm looking for ideas on how to better manage the partitioning setup.
hda1 : FAT32 'Windows C' (M$ 'boot' partition) hda2 : XP on NTFS 'Windows D' hda3 : FAT32 'Windows E' 700MB 'mirror' to copy & mount CD-ROMs in XP hdb1 : 1GB, swap hdb2 : 100MB, nascent /boot (not presently used) hdb3 : logical (rest of drive), subsequent are extended partitions hdb5 : 12GB, '/windows/F' FAT32 shared storage (business docs & library) hdb6 : 12GB, '/windows/G' FAT32 shared storage (media, development) hdb7 : 10GB, 9.3 '/' hdb8 : 10GB, 10.0 '/' hdb9 : 5GB, '/home', contains: /carl93 /carl10 (user 'master', holds data linked to from alternate user spaces) /carl10-1 /Documents hdb10 : 10GB, 10.1 '/' hdb11 : 10GB, spare (possible future alternate Linux; possible future data) hdb12 : 40GB, backups mirror 1 hdc1 : 40GB, backups mirror 2 My basic 'thumbnail sketch' for laying this out: XP stayed on the first hard drive, hda. Grub's 'Windows' entry boots the XP bootloader The XP bootloader offers a) XP or b) recovery console I reserved 10GB for '/' for each installed Linux (could easily be 8.5GB) I reserved 5GB for '/home'; haven't filled it up, yet, with "three" users
Each environment points to a common data set under /home (separate partition) so my data is 'in sync' regardless of the environment I'm booted into.
Do you ever encounter problems with, let's say, KDE settings being different between versions?
All three user spaces are at KDE 3.5.2 level 'a' so there are no cross-version conflicts. hth & regards, Carl