On Monday 22 November 2004 02:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > a home user with seperate /home can move > between distros You wish. Distros disagree on package selections, UID ranges, menu contents.... I tried sharing /home between Mandrake and RHL a few years go and that wasn't a great sauccess/ Sharing between two releases of RHL didn't work so well either (I was using /home on NFS at the time). I've also tried moving ~ and siscovered that doesn't work well either. I 'd recommend backing up to DVD or USB drive or something. a 40 Gb laptop drive in a USB2 enclosure fits in my pocket. So would 80 or 100, but 40's what I have. -- Cheers John
