121127 Randy Westlund wrote: > I'm a new gentoo user coming from Ubuntu.
Welcome ! > I've been proving to myself that I can do everything I need with Gentoo > on a secondary laptop, and after a few weeks, I think I've got it: > svn repos, AVR cross compiler, multiple screens, etc. I much prefer > Gentoo to Ubuntu and would like to put it on my primary laptop, > but I think I should leave an Ubuntu installation on there just in case. > I'd like to have Gentoo, Ubuntu and Win7 alongside each other. > How feasible would it be to have Gentoo and Ubuntu share a /home partition? It's likely to cause problems after a short time, as the 2 OS's will vary in the way they handle config files & pkgs wb updated at different times & to different versions. Try having separate homes, but symlink most of your subdirs in Ubuntu -- since you are likely to stop using it soon -- to those in Gentoo. The subdirs to symlink wb those which contain your personal stuff -- documents, pictures, whatever -- , which won't vary with OS. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca