More dual-booting fun than you can shake two HOWTOs at

[Alphax]

n0dalus wrote:
> On 10/14/06, Alphax <alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Problem 2: Have 1 physical HDD & can't add another; don't want to create
>> any Linux partions more than / and swap; want to be able to share most
>> of C:\Documents and Settings\ so that I've got my documents,
>> Firefox/Thunderbird profiles, and whatever else; have heard that writing
>> directly to a FAT32 partition as /home can be bad and should mount it
>> underneath an ext3 path somehow; am not sure where to install a boot
>> loader without destroying the W32 install.
> 
> Previously I've done something like this:
> 
> 1) Install Linux to a separate partition to Windows.
> 
> 2) Add Windows drive to fstab (FAT32 is more reliable in my opinion)
> as /win or something
> 
> 3) Setup symlinks in the home directory (this assumes GNOME ~/Desktop
> directory, I'm not sure about KDE):

KDE also has a ~/Desktop.

> ln -s /win/Documents\ and\ Settings/User/My\ Documents ~/Documents
> rmdir ~/Desktop
> ln -s /win/Documents\ and\ Settings/User/Desktop ~/Desktop
> touch ~/DONT\ SAVE\ FILES\ HERE

... if I don't save files there, what's it for?

> 4) Start Firefox on Linux and close it (create profile), then:
> rm ~/.mozilla/firefox/yyyyyyyy.default/\
> {cookies.txt,bookmarks.html,signons.txt}
> ln -s /win/Documents\ and\ Settings/User/Local\ Settings/Mozilla\
> /Firefox/Profiles/xxxxxxxx.default/\
> {cookies.txt,bookmarks.html,signons.txt} \
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/yyyyyyyy.default/
> You may even be able to symlink the entire xxxxxxxx.default directory,
> but I'm not sure if there would be problems if Windows and Linux have
> different Firefox versions.
> 
> 4) Do something similar for Thunderbird (I'm not sure what files are
> important)
> 

I've found a discussion from the Mozdev forums/lists on how to do that :)

> When I've set this up on other people's computers before it has worked
> quite well. The only problem I found was that one person sometimes
> saved pictures and things without any file extension, which worked
> fine with Linux but not later on Windows.
> 

Understandable :)

So, that answers /most/ of my questions...

I don't plan on sharing SSH keys (I can live with two copies); what I'm
not sure about is sharing gpg keyrings (I might ask on the gnupg lists
for that one) and then where to install GRUB (MBR or not?).

-- 
                Alphax
        Death to all fanatics!
  Down with categorical imperative!
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