Multiple Linuxes?

["Young, C Bryan" <cbyoung ukans edu>]

I'm interested in testing multiple distributions of Linux on my PC.  My
question:  can I share Linux Swap space and/or a /home partition between
RedHat, Debian, Mandrake, etc?

Thanks,

Bryan

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C. Bryan Young (cbyoung ukans edu)
Assistant Professor
Phone: (785) 864-2999
Fax:  (785) 864-5631

Civil and Environmental Engineering
2006 Learned Hall
University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas 66045 

-----Original Message-----
From: Liguo Song [mailto:liguo song vanderbilt edu]
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 2:17 PM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: Re: From mini-HOWTO author


Hi, Miroslav,

I still remember how helpful the Linux+WindowsNT mini-HOWTO was when I
started my journal of Linux. Thanks a lot for the nice job.

I am running RedHat 7.0 with Windows 2000 Professional. Also, I have
helped couple of my friends to finish the same task.

There are some experience that I'd like to share:
1. Don't mess with the Win2K partition, at least, don't change anything
before the Win2K't booting partition. I nearly always ended up not being
able to boot up Win2K after such operations.
2. If the Win2K is going to be installed after the Linux, make sure you
have the current boot disk for the Linux. You need it to get the Linux,
and recover LILO if preferred.
3. About partition, the best solution for me is to make a small boot
partition for Linux, and then give one or multiple partitions for Win2K,
and the rest for Linux. Windows, probably not Win2K, need to boot from
an active partition.

That's about all I can come up right now. I am on the edge of spring
break from school, so can't focus on the stuff that I did a while ago.

Hope that this could be of any help.

Again, thanks for the nice job that you have done for the community.


Liguo (Leo)



Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> 
> Gentle folks,
> 
> If somebody here on the list have good experience with Windows 2000 and
> Linux on the same machine (dual-boot system) and with appropriate boot
> files (either LILO or Win Boot Loader or so), don't hesitate to contact
> me with details.
> 
> I still don't run W2K but NT4 so I can't help people who ask me for
> help, regarding their problems. With your kind permissions, good
> contributions would be included into LILO mini-HOWTO and Linux+WindowsNT
> mini-HOWTO. So, make a good job.
> 
> Misko
> 
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