[wplug] Double your fun?

[Coutch, Robert]

Be careful when sharing a /home between two distibutions.
Unless you have the same versions of KDE, Gnome, etc because each time you
install and run new software there will be some config files (in your
/honme) and one version's config may mess up the other vesion and vice
versa.

I run SuSE 7.3 and added Red Hat 8.0 to another partiton. I share the same
swap partiton but each has its own /home. I only used one partions for RH8
as this is just a test to see how well I like it.

I mount all the partitions so I can access files across distributions.
My RedHat /usr/local/games is linked to my SuSE /usr/local/games so I dont
have to reinstall my games.
I add a link to one version's /home into the other verision /home.
For example:
In my SuSE /home/coutchre directory there is a link named "RedHat Home" that
points to /mnt/RedHat8/home/coutchre
-and-
In my RedHat .home/coutch directory there is a link named "SuSE Home" that
points to
/mnt/SuSE/home/coutchre


I use lilo and had to add an entry for Red Hat 8 to boot.
I'm not sure how to set up grub for this.

I think lilo is much simpler to use but that's probably because I don't use
grub very often.
I set up grub for dual boot one time and didn't like all the steps required
to get it working.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 4:56 PM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: Re: [wplug] Double your fun?


You're on the right path to get this done.  The biggest thing would be
cofiguring your boot loader so it can see the kernels for each distro.  

One other thing to do is to put /home on it's own partition, that way
you can mount it from both distros and not have to worry about 2 sets of
users' files.

On Sun, 2003-03-09 at 12:34, Ryan Kaulakis wrote:
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> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I am thinking of adding a second Linux distro to my computer
> (likely Slackware or Debian, maybe even YOPER), which is 
> currently running Red Hat v.7.3 using the GRUB bootloader. I
> was wondering: How should I go about installing this second 
> system? Right now I'm thinking that I should add a new 
> partition and install to there, but past that I'm clueless.
> Most of the HOWTO's and guides I've found thus far only deal
> with installing Linux with Windows or as a standalone. Any
> advice you have would be appriciated.
> 
> - -Ryan
> 
> PS: I don't remember who gave that talk about EMACS a couple 
> weeks ago, but I'd like to say I found it very useful.
> 
> 
>  
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