Hard Drive Organization

[Johnneylee Rollins]

>> You are right about the numerous kernels. I need to count
>> better but it is not important to me.
>
> I would not call claiming to have 9 more versions of Ubuntu on an HD
> than you actually have - claiming 14 when you have 5 - needing to
> learn how to count...

I don't really think the counting is that important either. I think
that it'd be ore important to really determine if the need for all
those installations are necessitated. Is it not possible to install as
many kernels as you wish, all while using the same filesystem?
If the applications only work in a specific kernel, then having
multiple installations of ubuntu doesn't seem the best way to go about
that.
Personally if I knew enough about the applications and which kernel
they break in, I'd probably manually install them into folders
separated by kernel.I'd also launch them manually.

If you wanted to go overboard about the whole deal, you could write a
script to run before launching any program that checks your kernel
version and if it doesn't correspond with the foldername of it's
version, then it wouldn't start. That way you could boot into one of
your many kernels, and that kernel could only launch applications that
work.