On Monday 22 May 2006 00:54, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Sunday 21 May 2006 11:07, Bruce Marshall wrote:
Hmmm.... I didn't change anything, but both 10.1 and 10.0 share the same /home directory. Could it be that something is screwed up on my home directory now that prevents either system from starting graphics.
I've got 9.3, 10.0 and 10.1 coexisting nicely on this system. I have:
/home/carl93 /home/carl10 /home/carl10-1
Each started as 'pristine', i.e. as created during installation of the corresponding version. All were subsequently updated to KDE 3.5.2 level 'a' supplementary. Each has a discreet copy of the relatively static data (i.e. I've done a 'cp -rp' on .gnupg, .Skype, .gaim, mail *config* files and so on) but my /Documents and mail folders are symlinked to one dynamic data store... presently under /carl10.. so it doesn't matter which version I'm booted into, my data is always in 'sync'. When I'm confident that 10.1 is going to work the way I want it, I'll cp -rp the dynamic data over and modify my symlinks, accordingly.
This gives me two immediate 'fallback' systems that are compatible with my backups, which i keep on separate disks/partitions that are only mounted when I take the snapshots.
Dear Carl, Like your system of the separate home for the various versions. I had hem always named different with the same password but your system is better. I have though some problems with the expressions that you use. You talk about relatively static data (such as??) and then you copy cp -rp which I had to look up in the man page. recursive and preserve (ownership, timestamp). You preserve ownership? As you have started the systems fresh and most probably as the first user for the newest version, the files have the same ownership (=1000) or do I make a mistake here? What is recursive and why do you use it. For the moment I have 9.3 satisfactory working and 10.0 (perhaps 10.1 next week) a work in progress. As I worked on 10.0 and had fetchmail working I had to copy the newest mail to my kmail 9.3 to keep that complete. Symlinked data for Kmail Skype Firefox and Konquerer would be ideal to quietly work on the final setup of the newest version. I could do that with midnight commander but what is the command line to use?