On 26/03/2008, Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sudev Barar wrote: > > I have three different flavours of Linux on my laptop...Ubuntu, Debian > > and Ubuntu Beta. The third really is changed from time to time to > > Fedora/CentOs/Suse etc... for testing. > > > > Common problem was how to keep mail/browser and my ssh keys etc. > > working when I switch from distro to distro. I solved this by making a > > link to the following directories in my home of second and third OS > > (note the ".") > > > How about having /home as a separate partition, and using that partition > as /home in each of the distros?
That is what I had done first. But the configurations file s(usually .gconf* ) get all mixed up and crashes etc. happen. This way I have basically kept one /home/user/document directory and each distro has /home/user plus mounted /home/user/document -- Regards, Sudev Barar Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there. _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
