On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 07:15:35AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 05:18, Martin Wegmann wrote: > > Hello Debian user, > > > > I am planning to install Debian woody as second linux on my computer > > beside Suse 8.1. I would like to know if debian will recognize the > > spare 50 GB on my /home directory (in Suse) and create a partition by > > it own without infering with Suse or if it would be better to resize > > it and create a new partition for debian with YAST2. If the > > partitioning would be the better idea, which format do you recommend? > > If your /home is in a seperate partition, and "your" uid is the same > on both machines, then I see nothing wrong w/ sharing /home between > systems. It could cause issues though, if you have different versions of things on each side. F'r instance (I don't know if this is true or not), both GNOME 1.4 and GNOME 2 might use ~/.gnome/ for storing preferences; their config file format is *extremely* different though, so they could break each other quit badly... > > And the second concern I have is the configuration of the boot manager, > > will debian show up with suse linux as choice when starting up? If you tell it to, then yes. This'll be a little weird though, since both SuSe and Debian will have their own /etc/lilo.conf; you'll just have to pick one OS and let it handle the boot sector. -rob
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