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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/07/2014 06:29 PM, Bat Phil wrote:<br>
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<div>After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I
thought I would share what I have found:<br>
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Hardware setup:<br>
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<span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.85" style="" class="">AMD</span>
<span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.86" style="" class="">Semperon</span>
300+ (old)<br>
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64MB <span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.87" style="" class="">AGP</span>
graphics card<br>
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1GB DDR400 RAM<br>
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<div>160GB <span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.88" style="" class="">HD</span>
configured as follows.....<br>
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<div> 500MB boot partition<br>
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<div> 10GB swap partition<br>
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<div> 142GB root partition<br>
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<div>250GB <span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.89" style="" class="">HD</span>
configured at home partition<br>
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<div>I have tried the following installs, in order:<br>
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<div>Gnome desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes at <span
tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.90" style="" class="">login</span>
and will not work<br>
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<div>Mate desktop (64 bit) - works fine<br>
Cinnamon desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes as soon as
I run an application<br>
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<div><span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.91" style="" class="">LXDE</span>
desktop (32 and 64 bit) - works fine but some warnings flashed
when updating via YUM (something about unknown <span
tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.92" style="" class="">metadata</span>)<br>
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<div>I set up two user accounts, put some data in the home
folders and configured <span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.93"
style="" class="">Thunderbird</span> on both accounts (did
this on the Mate install). On subsequent installs, I mapped
the home partition to my data drive and it mapped straight to
the home directory structure previously set up - all the data
is there, as are the e-mail settings and browsing history. All
this without any further intervention. <br>
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Unfortunately, the current <span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.94"
style="" class="">LXDE</span> install won't let me create
any additional users for some reason (despite having set my
account up as administrator), so I can't yet confirm that my
second account will also map to the <span tabindex="-1"
id=":3bw.95" style="" class="">pre</span>-existing home
folder for that user, but I have no reason to believe it
won't.<br>
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<div>I'll have another play when the new memory arrives, I still
want to try Gnome and <span tabindex="-1" id=":3bw.96"
style="" class="">KDE</span>, but I do like the look of
Cinnamon so far (despite not being able to get it to work
yet).<br>
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<div>Many thanks to everyone who contributed their knowledge and
opinions.<br>
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<div>Phil<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 5 September 2014 21:22, Joe Zeff <span
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09/05/2014 01:08 PM, Bat Phil wrote:<br>
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Best thing then is to set up a 2-drive system, put some
non-critical<br>
data files in the home directories and try it out then.
Although<br>
presumably, if I do manage to balls up the IDs and block
the data, then<br>
it's just a case of logging in as root and sorting out
permissions??<br>
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Generally speaking, yes. Even more important, be sure to
back up /home before you start this, just to be on the safe
side.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say it could be that the graphics
card isn't "strong" enough?...I mean 64MB?....I don't know off hand
what the memory requirements are for a standard Gnome desktop...but
I'm thinking it might need more than that?.I do know that I have
machines with 256MB graphics and they run fine..but nothing under
that....(so far!)....I dunno I guess if I'm wrong then no
worries...since I'm not a "guru" or even a "professional" on any
level! Just adding my two cents....<br>
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EGO II<br>
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