[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Multiple Linux'es (Was: Umm, I'm in need...)

[greenglow484@juno.com]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 09:14:42 -0500 cbbrowne at dantzig.brownes.org writes:
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 08:53:09 MDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
> greenglow484 at juno.com  said:

........snip
> > 
> > My Linux partitions are /, /var, /boot and /swap.

........snip
> The way I'd do it would involve having about 10 partitions:
> /dev/hda1 - root for Mandrake
> /dev/hda2 - /usr for Mandrake
> /dev/hda3 - /var for Mandrake
> /dev/hda4 - root for SuSE
> /dev/hda5 - /usr for SuSE
> /dev/hda6 - /var for SuSE
> /dev/hda7 - /boot, shared by both distributions
> /dev/hda8 - swap, shared by _both_ distributions
> /dev/hda9 - /home, shared by _both_ distributions
> /dev/hda10 - /usr/local, shared by both distributions


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> It's not overly difficult to do; you just have to keep clear in
> mind which partitions have which roles...

Chris --
Thanx!  You're in MDT; hope it's cooler, wherever you are, than it is in
Dallas today -- forecast 100 here.

And, BTW, what_is_the plural of "Linux"?  Linuxes? Linuces? Linuxs? Linux
duo doce? 

Anyway -- In order to have multi Linuxes/ Linuces/ whatever on my
machine, is it_necessary_that I have, for each of the 2 distros, discrete
partitions for usr, var, home & local; or can I just, as to only the 2nd
distro, have all that lumped into a single root partition -- keeping the
main distro with just a root and var (and the shared swap and boot), per
my prior post?  (The idea being that the 2nd distro is more of an
experiment than anything else, likely to be wiped out by the next,
sparkly new version of SuSE/ Storm/ RHat/ whatever, that comes along).

And, thus, they really can share the same, single swap partition, with no
probs, huh?  Thanx again!
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