On 30/10/13 15:04, Nicholas Skaggs wrote:
Thanks Barry! So basically you keep a third disk or partition and mount it as /home in both installations. Run ubuntu devel 100% of the time unless something breaks, during which you will reboot and load the stable installation with all of your data still intact. It makes good sense to me :-)
More or less what I do - except that for the sake of ease, I use the default installation to an entire hard drive both for the stable and the testing version. I leave each installation with its own /home directory and sync this to the third drive which is in a trayless caddy. That way, I can pop it into another machine (my wife's) if I have a hardware problem. I used to put the installations on separate partitions on the same drive, but after a couple of problems I found it more reliable to let the installer work with its defaults on the two separate drives. I used 13.10 testing exclusively from last November up until I installed 14.04 by overwriting 13.04. So far I've only had to boot into 13.10 once when I had a problem getting Adobe Digital Editions working properly under Wine - I think the Adobe registration site was down at the time.
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