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Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?



I was intending to install debian pototo in addition to my normal slackware system, and as
I just want to install debian so as to play with the latest release I was going to setup a
separate user in /home say /home/debian (not my normal slackware user account.) Would this
be ok? Do you see any problems doingit this way?

Andrew

Wayne Topa wrote:

>         Subject: Re: How to share swap partition across 2 linux installs?
>         Date: Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 11:26:02PM +1000
>
> In reply to:Andrew White
>
> Quoting Andrew White(awhite@tig.com.au):
>
> > In addition to this, Is there any problems sharing the same /home between 2 distros.
> >
> Not for the _same_ distro, it isn't.  I do share /home with hamm and
> slink.  I tried it with Slackware and Slink and screwed Slink up
> badly!  Seems that slackeware starts their user id's at 500, whereas
> Debian starts them at 1000.  Took me a while to fix all of that mess.
> I would not recommend it to anyone.
>
> HTH, YMMV, HAND
>
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