On Tuesday 08 July 2003 08:49 am, you wrote:
> On Tuesday July 08 2003 06:36 am, you wrote:
> > I have a dual boot system. RedHat and Debian (Redhat is used for the
> > tough questions my son asks and I need to boot into RedHat 9.0 to see
> > what he is talking about).
> >
> > The problem is. If I boot into RedHat 9.0 and KDE. I see my KDE desktop
> > that I had setup in Debian. But the icons and menu items on the panel
> > are different. When I return back to Debian (My daily distro of choice)
> > my menus and pane are now what they were in RedHat. I seem to have
> > fixed this once, but wouldn't you know it I can't seem to find my
> > notes. I remember finding a dir somewhere that had all the menu itmes
> > in it and I ran a command like rebuild-menu or something on that order
> > to return my system to pre RedHat 9.0.
> >
> > Also is there away I could prevent this from happening? What files/dir
> > would I need to backup and restore?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Mike M.
>
> The "problem" here is that both distros are using the same home
> directory. Reconfigure your setup so that each distro uses its own
> individual home directory and you won't have this problem any more. You
> can still mount the other system's home directory if you need access to
> files, you just don't mount it as /home or /root
I prefer seperating them even further by having completely seperate
partitions they each can mount. I had six O/S unices and 10 kernels
installed this way. (Unices generally support at least 64 partitions.)
Great to be able to add a distro and mess with it without affecting my
"live" system. Grub handles most O/Ss just fine too.
--Steve ___________ Sigless?
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