On 7/3/22 22:04, Michael Hennebry wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jul 2022, George N. White III wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 6:23 PM Robert McBroom via users <
users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Do you plan to have the user "home" directory in a separate partition?
There have been glitches with configuration details stored in the
users home directory. One approach is to keep users "home" directories
separate but share Documents, etc. via a 4th partition.
Haven't quite decided.
I've been bitten by the aforementioned
glitches even without multiple boots.
The reason for the third boot is so that in the case of a
bad install, there is still a good install to fall back on.
Ideally, I will not be running both Linux's.
I have previously used the documents partition method.
That said, 'twould be nice to keep things like Firefox windows.
Normally, I'd expect a new version of a program to be able to read
the previousl versions configuration and other data.
The aforemention bite occurred when Firefox only thought it could.
This is essentially what I have been doing for years, but Michael wants
two linux boot partitions. He didn't mention if he wants these to share
a separate /home partition. This method preserves the recovery
partition,
which can have drivers that aren't in the original Windows installation
DVD images, but you may be able to get newer install images or
download drivers from the vendor's site. A fresh install of current
Windows is generally better than trying to upgrade a years-old
recovery image. I would do away with the recovery partition.
A fresh install of Windows seems the way to go.
Using Windows tools to shrink the original partition has been
reliable for me. With Windows 10 it was necessary to disable
"fastboot" as that just loads Windows without allowing the user
to choose another OS.
In my experience, many users with 1TB drives were happy with
1/4 TB for Windows, a 1/8 TB linux "root" partition, and the
residual for /home. The others generally need much more than 1TB,
Running Windows 10, Fedora 35, Fedora 36 and CentOS 7. The
grub2-mkconfig with Fedora doesn't seem to honor grub.cfg or find the
boot of other linux. The Windows stanza chainloads without any problems.
There is no need to reinstall Windows. This is as the term seems to be a
BIOS boot.
I put the boot files of the second and higher linux systems in the
/root. The necessary files can be copied to the master boot partition.
The .conf entries in /boot/loader/entries are picked up by the grub menu
and boot the linux systems.
YMMV
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