LILO Dual boot problem

Keith Mastin kmastin-PzQIwG9Jn9VAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 2 23:20:20 UTC 2003


> I'm curious. When you are booting 2 different versions of Linux do you
> have to install those packages that are common to both distributions
> twice or can you share files between the 2 distributions.

You'll want to keep the 2 seperate, but you can share $UERSPACE, such as
/home, /tmp, and swap space. One of the problems with sharing apps is in
the libs and where different distros install user files.




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