[Gllug] Multiple Distro's, one swap partition?

[Alain Williams]

On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 10:51:49AM +0000, FORSTER, David wrote:
> Morning all...
> 
> I can't seem to get any meaningful results on Google for this:
> 
> I've got a new laptop and I'm having difficulty installing Debian on it
> (what a surprise!)
> I'm going to persevere with it, but in the meantime I'd like to get
> something simple like Mandrake, or maybe a knoppix hdinstall, up and running
> on another partition... I was wondering whether I could save a little space
> by using the same swap partition for both Distro's? Anyone tried that
> before?

Yes, I have done this.

You will probably also want to shart /home. Be careful, some distros do create some
user directories under /home, you will want to keep these separate.

Either create a /home_real (or something) and put real user's $HOMEs here, or
creating a /home partition in the first distro that you in, but not in subsequent ones
and symlink real user directories over in subsequent ones.


You will also want to create a larger /boot than normal so that you can keep the different kernels
for the various distros.


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Oops - does that mean that I should only have replied to you ? :-)

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