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Re: Wanting Debian to co-exist with another OS on Alpha - any hints of installation ?



Henry House wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:30:38AM +0100, scr wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The only problem likely with a shared /home is user and group id mismatch,
> which may be corrected by manually editing /etc/group and /etc/passwd.

Not true. Think of a binary that was built assuming
"Set#1" of shared libraries. Now boot another Linux
distribution, which provides "Set#2" of these libs.
Usually the old binary will not work. You will have
to recompile your binary from source.

scr



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