Re: Debian and Red Hat togheter
Sharing /home isn't so hard if there are only a few users. I do it at
home where there is just me and (occasionally) my wife.
I have thought of sharing /opt and perhaps /usr/local, but have been
worried that in addition to the stuff that I install by hand some rpms
or debs will put stuff there. I don't want to mix that stuff.
On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 12:19:18AM +0518, USM Bish wrote:
> Yes, I have Slackware and Debian on the same system.
> The only things I share are the swap partition, /opt
> and an unusual partition I use called /archive which
> holds my software archives, downloads, html, music,
> graphics, and shared data files.
>
> I tried to share /home, but gave up because of the
> userid problems between systems. Doing with system
> dirs like /usr, /var, /etc, /tmp etc. should NOT be
> tried because of userid, permissions, ownerships and
> numerous other mismatches.
>
> I keep several commonly used programs in /opt which
> includes mainly third party software which I install
> manually to be used by both systems. The following
> programs run perfectly well from /opt across both
> systems: netscape, xv, maxwell, abiword, WordPerfect
> Ted, jdk1.2, nasm, BlueFish and numerous scripts and
> programs. All these programs are statically linked &
> would run independently. Note : "/opt/bin" is on my
> default path set in /etc/profile of both systems.
>
> USM Bish
>
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 12:34:07PM -0200, romeu@petrobras.com.br wrote:
> >
> > Another question (It's half off-topic, I know):
> > I'm installing Red Hat. Is there anyone that has 2 different linux OS's in
> > the same machine, and was able to optimize disk space? Say, symlink a few
> > directories (/home, for example) from one installation to another? It would
> > not only optimize disk space, but it would keep the same user files under
> > both installations.
> >
> > Thanks again,
> > Gaucho
> >
>
>
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