Re: [SLUG] Dual boot Redhat - Debian changing KDE what's up with that

From: Mike Manchester (mchester@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Jul 08 2003 - 19:02:11 EDT


Well yes, that's one solution. But the problem is the damage has already
been done and I want to undo the damage.
Mike M.

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 08:49, SpamFree 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



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