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Sharing the Desktop between Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu Hardy Heron on dual boot system
I've been using Ubuntu for a while and gave up on Windows. Then, something happened. I found out I could capture from my DVR using Firewire but only under Windows (no Linux drivers yet for SA). No biggie, I'll make the laptop dual boot. With Ubuntu installed this is not fun, Windows will wipe out the boot utility (GRUB) and Ubuntu is not available anymore, so, best way to do it is the following: Load Windows XP and manually edit the partitions, you want 10 G for windows and let the rest untouched. Next, load Ubuntu, edit partitions manually, allocate another 10G for Ubuntu and the rest make into a third partition formatted FAT32 or NTFS.
Boot to Windows, open Windows Explorer right-click your Desktop (associated with your user name) and drag to the third partition which should show as a drive letter. Let go, a litlle menu opens, choose "copy here", Windows will copy the contents of your Desktop there and make it the default location.
Boot to Ubuntu and make a mount point inside your user directory. (/Home/user/third). Add an entry to fstab and mount said third partition to /home/use/third. Now, go to /home/user/.config and edit user-dirs.dirs. Replace XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop" with XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/user/third/Desktop". Note that Desktop already exists since you changed the location in Windows. Done!
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