The only workable option I can see is to use a boot USB if allowed. I know the latest 10.04 ubuntu allows for your own data area.
In reality, you seem to be creating a lot of extra work for yourself. I expect the course will be hard enough without this! Steve On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 21:02 +1300, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Hello, > > I am about to start university next week, and I do not like either KDE or > GNOME, which is all that is available in Canterbury's C.S. computer labs. I > would like to put my favourite window manager on my memory stick, and run it > in place of the one into which I login. > > This raises two problems: how do I switch window managers within an X session > (without terminating the X session)? And what filesystem can I put on my > memory stick that is more UNIX friendly than FAT, but that does not have the > ext filesystems' problem of confusing the system that mounts it when moving > between systems with different UIDs? > > These are, of course, not huge issues, but I would like to figure this out at > some point. > > --Aidan Gauland >
