Dualbooting between FC7 & Feisty (was Sharing Bookmarks etc between 2 OS's )

[Scott (angrykeyboarder)]

Ed Smits spake thusly on 06/12/2007 04:46 PM:
> Finally solved my dilemma with a simple and elegant solution.
> 
> Scenario - desire to dual-boot between FC7 & Feisty using same profile
> for consistency of Bookmarks, Documents etc.

In other words, the same home directory?

> 
> Solution - create the same username in both OS's, just make sure that
> the UID is the same - FC defaults to 500 and up, Feisty defaults to
> 1000 and up, just make sure that username and UID are the same on both
> sides.
> 
> That's it, nothing else to do. Simple and elegant, works like a charm,
> all permissions are normal, no security issues I can see.
> 
> Cheers and thanks to those who responded to my improperly/poorly
> described problem (see was in subj above), they started me to thinking
> how best to do this.

I missed the original thread on this.

I've run into a number of problems trying to boot multiple Linux distros
for a variety of reasons. Ironically, I've found it easier to boot Linux
and Windows than Linux and... Linux on the same box.

Lately I've gone the Virtual Machine route, since of all Linux distros,
Ubuntu is the one I spend most of my time in.  I run several others
(along with FreeBSD and Solaris) in Virtual Machines from within Ubuntu.

Of course, this doesn't solve the "same home directory" issue, but I
just copy the important files/directories from one to the other.


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            Scott
http://angrykeyboarder.com
©2007 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wites Wesewved

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