On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 09:08:19AM +1000, Charlie wrote: > On Wednesday 17 May 2006 02:25, dfp10@logical.net wrote this for perusal by us > all: > >---> Could you advise me on the best setup for me to switch between SuSE and > > Debian? ---> I have two 80gb hard drives and a CDROM r/w and a DVD r/w > > drive. ---> Is it best to put both systems on different partitions of the > > same hard drive or ---> one on each drive? > >---> Should the drives be primary and secondary or both primary? > >---> Also, what are the best placements for the CDROM and DVD drives? > >---> Is it best to have a DOS partition on one or other of the hard drives? > >---> Many thanks for advice > >---> Don Parsons > >---> dfp10@capital.net > >---> -- > > When experimenting to discover what flavour of Linux I liked best, I had > several Linux distros on one hard drive > > They shared the same swap partition, but when I attempted to use the same home > partition, their were constant conflicts. Each had their own "/", /home, /usr > partition. I didn't go further than that. There was a windows partition and > others that were never formatted on any of the installs, like documents and > graphics and the virtual memory partition for windows. I used Lilo mostly > also for booting at that time. there was some discussion a couple of weeks ago about this, so check the archives. One point though was instead of setting up an actual /home partition, leave /home in the root of each distro and then set up a mount to a "documents" or whatever partition which is mounted within each home. This was the "." config files in each home remain controlled by their respective distros, but your files and such are accessible from each. so each distro looks like this: /home/<user>/documents where the fstab says /dev/hdx /home/documents <fstype> ... then that documents directory is mounted on boot and is transparently accessible to each distro. A > > But depending what Linux distro I was in I often had to change the permission > of the spare partitions. So chown them in different distro's again or I would > get error messages. It wasn't onerous because I was trying things out but for > constant use it might be a bit too much trouble. The distros I used were > Linux Red Hat, Linux Mandrake and Linux Slackware. > > HTH > Charlie > > -- > Registered Linux User:- 329524 > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Gaining enlightenment is an accident. Spiritual practice simply makes us > accident-prone. ----------------- ZEN SAYING > > *********************************************** > Brilliant Debian Sarge 3.1 > ___________________________________________________________ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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