Triple-boot? -- XP Pro/ubuntu [or kubuntu]/Mandriva

john levin john at technolalia.org
Mon Jan 30 19:41:29 UTC 2006


Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> On Monday 30 January 2006 12:33, john levin wrote:
> jl> Sharing the home directory is fine, although there can be conflicts if 
> jl> two different distros share the same user/s.
> 
> Okay, just to clarify, your advice, to avoid conflicts if I share the /home 
> directory, is for my Ubuntu username to be different from the Mandriva 
> username (e.g., not use "chuck" in both), or are we talking about a more 
> subtle difference?  I *said* I needed dumbing-down.  :-)
> 

The names have to be different: so you could have chuckdriva and 
ubuchuck, for example.

> Thanks for all the info.
> 

S'alright :)

John






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