On 06/23/2010 09:21 PM, Joel Rees wrote: > On Jun 23, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Steven I Usdansky wrote: > >> My vote is for one grub to rule them all, > Just want to chime in a bit. I used to multi-boot Linux years ago when I was running SuSE. When a new release came out I would multi-boot the old and new versions. I knew about the grub issues and handled them satisfactorily, but the issue of sharing one's home directory bit be in the posterior. At that time I was running KDE. At this point, the interaction between the old release and new release that contained an updated KDE essentially made my desktop unusable to where I essentially had to switch to GNOME (or another window manager but retaining the same display manager) at the time. Because I run many Linux installfests, I had always advocated allocating a separate /home partition. One possible solution is to set up your real home directory with symlinks to different desktop configurations, such as: /home/mydir /home/fakeFedora12 /home/fakeFedora13 Then set up a login script to symlink the relevant configuration files and directories. While this is a real PIA, it allows you to have a single home directory, but when initially configuring your new release, create the fake directories, and copy your relevant configs, such as ~/.gnome2 in these fake directories. As I said it is a real PIA, but it is workable, and allows you to boot into whatever system you want. Personally, today I prefer to use VMs. -- Jerry Feldman<gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 537C5846 PGP Key fingerprint: 3D1B 8377 A3C0 A5F2 ECBB CA3B 4607 4319 537C 5846 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
