John Ryan wrote:
Hello,
I am in the process of setting up a multi-boot
system, where I may have Suse, Ubuntu and possibly another
variant of linux. (I am in learning mode)
Will there be any problems if I mount /home on one
partition (say on /dev/hda5), and use that partition as /home for all
of the flavours of linux?
Would there be conflicts when installing one system if another already
has its /home on /dev/hda5 or when upgrading? i.e. will the upgrade or install wipe
the existing /home?
Would there be any problems with using Gnome on one linux and kde on another?
Would it be OK to share say Thunderbird email between the different flavours
even if the versions of Thurderbird differed slightly?
Is it a good idea?
Some things will work just fine shared across multiple distros (~/.ssh). Other things will not (~/.kde). The techniques described in this article will let you share the things that can be shared well, and leave things that are problematic different for each distro. http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/11802.html