Hi Jonathan, Friday, September 29, 2000, 2:18:14 PM, you wrote:
At 02:02 PM 9/29/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Hi Filip,
Friday, September 29, 2000, 12:19:20 PM, you wrote:
Hi all, My questions are :
1.How do I partition my 3rd disk ? Ah, a loaded question! I'll refrain from saying use fdisk ;-) Seriously, it's basically a personal preference and will depend on whether and how you want to use shared partitions. Mount points that can be shared easily by multiple distros include the following:
The devil is in the details. You cannot mix directories such as these and have an easy time. For instance:
/webdownloads (since you have it) /usr/doc (not much point in duplicating text) SuSE"s /usr/doc has specila symlinks and such that are rigged to help the SuSE Help System. Overwriting them with Red Hat's /usr/doc will cause that to fail.
You would be correct, reformatting and overwriting would cause something to break. You are correct about the symlinks for the help system they are in places like /usr/doc/susehilf/ and /usr/doc/sdb/en/. I was not aware that red hat was also using these directories, my assumption was that red hat would possibly overwrite the common stuff like /usr/doc/howto/ (which is more or less the same everywhere you look) provided he bothered to waste the time overinstalling it at all again.
swap (saves a little space) /boot (same)
Wonrg. even the smallest .1 differance in kernel version will screw things like depmod.
Right, I have a system running SuSE and Debian with a common /boot partition. I also have 4 bootable SuSE kernels 2.2.6, 2.2.10, 2.2.14, and 2.2.16 not to mention 2.4.0-test2 and a couple for Debian. I can tell you didn't read the rest of my message.
/home (makes it easy for users to have their stuff where they expect it)
Again, wrong. the default dot files are not the same between distros, varisables liek $WINDOWMANAGER may not equal the same path and so on... though on the other hand, this would probably be the easiest to patch up...
Ease here depends on complexity and number of users. /boot is much more straight forward.
/usr/src (again, this is basically text)
see /boot: the smallest differances in kernel version can wearck havoc.
No, cd /usr/src/ ls linux linux-2.2.16.SuSE linux-2.4.0-test2 linux-2.2.14.SuSE linux-2.2.17 linux-2.4.0-test2.tar.bz2 that's 4 different versions and they all compile and boot fine. Oh and I find that it is much easier since I only have to set it up once.
I'm sure there are others but these are off the top of my head.
JW
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