Re: Wanting Debian to co-exist with another OS on Alpha - any hints of installation ?
"Andrei A. Dergatchev" wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have never used Debian before and I want to try it. Currently I'm
> installing
> Mandrake on my SX164 but I figured that 4GB ought to be enough
> for 2 OSes. I would be very grateful for any information about
> coexistance of Linuxes on Alpha
Different Linux installations shouldn't result in
problems per se --- as seen firmware-wise.
[Excuse my innocent posting, I'm still booting my
two little Alphas via ARC/AlphaBios and do not
have access to a SRM machine.]
> my search on dejanews and alphalinux.org hasn't
> showed up anything so far.
Maybe these issues you were looking for simply do
not exist? I would be *very* surprised if SRM had
such limitations.
> That is, booting from SRM, are there any
> problems to watch for when one wants to have 2 (apparently) different
> slices to boot from, one swap and one common /home to share ?
A single swap partition for all Linux installations?
That's not a firmware issue. Can be done inside the
Linuxes (ugly word, or not?) or chosen during install.
A single home partition? Keep in mind that different
Linux distributions might be binary incompatible with
each other, so if developers are out there in /home
expect problems from this corner.
Regards,
scr
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