Hi, I've got a spare 2 Gig partition on my drive that I had been using for BeOS. So I've been using LILO to boot between SuSE 6.3 and BeOS. I've recently got Slackware7 and wanted to install it over the BeOS. My question is this: Can I share the same swap partition between SuSE Linux and Slackware Linux? It seems like it would be no problem. Thanks, Sean ===== tChifidh me thu! __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Sean O Ceallaigh wrote:
Hi,
I've got a spare 2 Gig partition on my drive that I had been using for BeOS. So I've been using LILO to boot between SuSE 6.3 and BeOS. I've recently got Slackware7 and wanted to install it over the BeOS. My question is this:
Can I share the same swap partition between SuSE Linux and Slackware Linux? It seems like it would be no problem.
Sure can, that isn't a problem.
Thanks,
Sean
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Sean O Ceallaigh wrote:
Hi,
I've got a spare 2 Gig partition on my drive that I had been using for BeOS. So I've been using LILO to boot between SuSE 6.3 and BeOS. I've recently got Slackware7 and wanted to install it over the BeOS. My question is this:
Can I share the same swap partition between SuSE Linux and Slackware Linux? It seems like it would be no problem.
Sure that won't be a problem. Swap partition between distros on the same machine works great. You can even mount the other / partition from the other distro running, but I won't try running programs from it, just for access data, like personal files. Like mounting your /home directory for your normal user account, that is really nice because all you files are their no matter what distro booted and running. Don't try running programs, the libraries /could/ be differant, programs could be differant version and things like that, worst case it could trash some data base or config files, don't do it. What I personally did was create 4 partitions. 1 swap, 1 home, 1 root for Debian, 1 root for SuSE. When it booted to SuSE it would mount 1 of the root partitons, mount the /home directory and also the swap. When Debian booted it would mount the other / partiton, the /home directory and also the swap. It was really nice, since when I write to my home directory and all my files where there no matter way what distro I was booted to. This does require re-partition your drive, so I would recommened against it, unless you have a backup and are comfortable with it. Most importantly, if you do - do this, understand that it is at your own risk. Jack
Thanks,
Sean
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What I personally did was create 4 partitions. 1 swap, 1 home, 1 root for Debian, 1 root for SuSE. When it booted to SuSE it would mount 1 of the root partitions, mount the /home directory and also the swap. When Debian booted it would mount the other / partition, the /home directory and also the swap.
I once tried to create another / partition in order to install Red Hat as well but I wasn't very successful. While using the Red Hat tool (Disk Druid) to create another / partition I got the message that it wasn't possible to create another one since there already was a / partition. -- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
True, that will not work. You can not have 2 '/' slices, you will have to
call it something else, like 'root' and mount it in a differant place when
you are running Red Hat. When you start to run SuSE you will mount the
'root' as '/' and you will mount the Red Hat '/' as 'root'.
I haven't tried Disk Druid, I would just stick with fdisk since it is
standard and you don't have to name the slices when you create them.
It will work, you just have to play with it. Make sure you have a fresh
backup and use at your own risk before you do though : )
Jack
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From: Yatsen Ng
What I personally did was create 4 partitions. 1 swap, 1 home, 1 root for Debian, 1 root for SuSE. When it booted to SuSE it would mount 1 of the root partitions, mount the /home directory and also the swap. When Debian booted it would mount the other / partition, the /home directory and also the swap.
I once tried to create another / partition in order to install Red Hat as well but I wasn't very successful. While using the Red Hat tool (Disk Druid) to create another / partition I got the message that it wasn't possible to create another one since there already was a / partition.
-- Yatsen Ng yatsen.ng@brunel.nl Den Haag, The Netherlands
It said "Needs Windows 95 or better". So I installed Linux...
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