"Andrei A. Dergatchev" wrote: > > Greetings, > > I have never used Debian before and I want to try it. Currently I'm > installing > Mandrake on my SX164 but I figured that 4GB ought to be enough > for 2 OSes. I would be very grateful for any information about > coexistance of Linuxes on Alpha
Different Linux installations shouldn't result in problems per se --- as seen firmware-wise. [Excuse my innocent posting, I'm still booting my two little Alphas via ARC/AlphaBios and do not have access to a SRM machine.] > my search on dejanews and alphalinux.org hasn't > showed up anything so far. Maybe these issues you were looking for simply do not exist? I would be *very* surprised if SRM had such limitations. > That is, booting from SRM, are there any > problems to watch for when one wants to have 2 (apparently) different > slices to boot from, one swap and one common /home to share ? A single swap partition for all Linux installations? That's not a firmware issue. Can be done inside the Linuxes (ugly word, or not?) or chosen during install. A single home partition? Keep in mind that different Linux distributions might be binary incompatible with each other, so if developers are out there in /home expect problems from this corner. Regards, scr
