On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> The extended partition takes up the rest of the
> drive and contains 6 partitions. It has in order a 15 meg ext2,
> a 128 meg swap, a 2.6 gig ext2, a 15 meg ext2, a 128 meg swap,
> and a 2.6 gig ext2. The primary partition is sda1 and the
> extended partition contains sda5-10. This leaves room for 2
> linux installations of /boot, swap and /.
BTW, you don't need 2 swap partitions. Both installations very happily can
share the one swap partition, since only one Linux can be running at any
time. Once installed, you can then mount and umount a common /home partition
to get your user configs and data easily migrated over, or umount it to go
back to the /home as installed. I wish the Linux File System Standard
separated out the system config files so you could also do this mount/umount
trick with them.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU] - sent by Linux.
