After a weekend of installing and re-installing, I thought I would
share what I have found:
Hardware setup:
AMD Semperon 300+ (old)
64MB AGP graphics card
1GB DDR400 RAM
160GB HD configured as follows.....
500MB boot partition
10GB swap partition
142GB root partition
250GB HD configured at home partition
I have tried the following installs, in order:
Gnome desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes at login and will not work
Mate desktop (64 bit) - works fine
Cinnamon desktop (64 and 32 bit) - desktop crashes as soon as I run an
application
LXDE desktop (32 and 64 bit) - works fine but some warnings flashed
when updating via YUM (something about unknown metadata)
I set up two user accounts, put some data in the home folders and
configured Thunderbird 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.
Unfortunately, the current LXDE 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 pre-existing home folder for that user, but I have no
reason to believe it won't.
I'll have another play when the new memory arrives, I still want to
try Gnome and KDE, but I do like the look of Cinnamon so far (despite
not being able to get it to work yet).
Many thanks to everyone who contributed their knowledge and opinions.
Phil
On 5 September 2014 21:22, Joe Zeff <joe(a)zeff.us <mailto:joe@zeff.us>>
wrote:
On 09/05/2014 01:08 PM, Bat Phil wrote:
Best thing then is to set up a 2-drive system, put some
non-critical
data files in the home directories and try it out then. Although
presumably, if I do manage to balls up the IDs and block the
data, then
it's just a case of logging in as root and sorting out
permissions??
Generally speaking, yes. Even more important, be sure to back up
/home before you start this, just to be on the safe side.
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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....
EGO II