LILO Dual boot problem

Keith Mastin kmastin-PzQIwG9Jn9VAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 3 00:59:04 UTC 2003


> Thanks everyone for giving some ideas on how to do this.
>
>>You'll want to keep the 2 seperate, but you can share $UERSPACE, such
>> as /home, /tmp, and swap space.
>
> Ok so does this mean that you would set up a partition for each
> distribution plus a partition for /home and /tmp, and another for the
> swap space?

mmmm... using FreeBSD -style partitions and slices, I would say yes, but
with linux I would say use dedicated hard drives per distro. Otherwise,
there are naming problems (both systems need independant / filesystems,
etc.).

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Keith Mastin
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Toronto, Canada
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