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

[Kyle_Davenport@compusa.com]

heh, you're a lawyer; you ought to know the plural of "ix" is "ices".  Several
Linices.

OK, just joking.  There is only 1 linux, but several distributions.



(snip)

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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