Re: Two day experiment

darklight wrote:

Godzilla wrote:

After hearing all of the hype about Ubuntu 7.04, I decided to give
it a spin. The first thing that I did was to make a fresh copy of
my home directory on a CD, using KDar. I have two physical hard
drives, and I would simply put the Ubuntu on a partition on the
second drive and then copy all of my data onto it using KDar.

Installation was almost as easy as falling off of a log.
Remembering that I preferred the KDE desktop, it was simple to add
that on and it instantly became Kubuntu. The reason that I did not
start with Kubuntu was that I wanted to have some of the
applications that come with Gnome already in place.

The first problem that I encountered was when I sought to access
KDar to copy over my personal data. KDar wasn't available on their
repository! Loading new applications using their tools was very
easy compared to RPM, but if something isn't included you must
search it out and do a tedious manual install.

Then, came the clincher: I tried to reboot back into SuSE. No go.
It just hung on the black screen of death. Many hours of going
through the Ubuntu forums and printing out a ream of paper led me
to a career of editing the extremely lengthy boot menu that Ubuntu
had created. Nothing worked. It seemed like the Ubuntu Genie had
commandeered my computer for its exclusive domain.

At long last, I concluded that the only way that I could get back
into SuSE was to disconnect the sdb drive (where Ubuntu lived)
physically and try booting SuSE from the sda drive using the SUSE
DVD disk to attempt repairs. Perhaps my menu editing skills were
lacking, but I finally wound up re-installing SuSE 10.2 and then
putting my data back in place with KDar.

From this brief digression into a new operating system, I can draw
several premature conclusions:
1. Ubuntu is far easier to install than SuSE.
2. Their philosophy seems geared toward making the transition easy
for people accustomed to using Windows.
3. Applications do seem to load faster than with SuSE, probably
because of less overhead in the coding.

If I had to use one system, I could live comfortably with either
one. Others have succeeded in creating seamless multiple boot
systems, so in this regard I blame no one other than myself.

But, for now I remain a SuSE user. ;-)

Godzilla
question is any thing installed on the hard drive with the opensuse
install

Not as far as I can determine using KDiskFree, clicking on each of the
partitions and bringing up Konqueror to view the contents.

Godzilla
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