[Gllug] Triple booting Win2k, Debian, RedHat

[Bruce Richardson]

On 3/1/02, 2:39:32 PM, "Paul Brazier" <pbrazier at cosmos-uk.co.uk> wrote 
regarding [Gllug] Triple booting Win2k, Debian, RedHat:


> I'm planning to set up my home machine as a triple boot with Win2k,
> Debian and RedHat (and lilo as the bootloader).

> I see conflicting reports as to whether I can/should put lilo in the MBR
> or not, though I think as long as I install Win2k first and have boot
> floppies ready it should be OK.

If you want Lilo to manage all 3 then you'll need to put it in the mbr.  
Alternatively, use boot floppies to do Debian and RH

> Can I have Debian and RedHat sharing partitions?
> Specifically /boot, /home?

Boot - only really possible if you download your own kernel source and 
don't use the distro kernel packages.  If you think you know what you are 
doing, try it.  But it's only a small space saving and no real gain.

/home - yes, you could.  You'd have to make sure that uid and gid's 
matched on both systems.  Debian and Red Hat have different ideas about 
how rights and group ownership are done for /home, though.  You'ld also 
have the occasional problem with config files in $HOME, with Debian and 
RH having different versions of an app with incompatible config 
requirements.  And Debian and RH do different things with .bashrc and 
.bash_profile (RH gets it wrong, IMO).

So you'd have to create the user in one distro and then modify it to 
adapt to whichever you were running from.

> Any others that can be shared? swap partition?

Swap is the only unproblematic one.  You certainly couldn't share /usr or 
/var

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Bruce

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