--- Patriiiiiiiiiick wrote:

Hello!

I just bought a new hard drive and I am going to install 9.1 on it. I wonder what I should pay attention to if I want to leave the possiblility to test other distributions later on and to be able to reuse some stuff: at least files but maybe some installed applications...

My questions are therefore:

- What should I pay attention to to be able to install and use another system alongside (parititions, ...)? - What can I (not) reuse from one system to another (files, applications, configs, ...)?

I would suggest that you partition your harddrive such that you have many different partitions: - one partition to mount /home on, - another where you have all your "DATA" (whatever you work on, pictures, music, movie files). - one for swap (this you could reuse between diferent distributions) - multiple partitions to mount / of different distributions... Have at least two partition - one for "stable" distribution and another "experimental". Have more if you really plan to have more than two distributions on your drive. Use Grub to mult-boot between various partitions. It should be relatively straight-forward if you know the format of Grub's menu.lst. This way you would probably not be able to resule system config files from one distribution to another but may be able to use personal config files that are typically in your home directory. It is not necessarily a great idea to share system config files between distributions as distributions vary largely on where they are kept, their format, version etc. The same goes for the config files in your home directory but to a lesser extent - for example if one distro has kde 3.3 and other has kde 3.2.1 and they both write in the same ~/.kde directory - you would have weird results. what I would recommend is to have multiple users in the /home partition (one per each distribution). Good luck, Osho __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail