On 14 Nov 2003 09:49:28 -0500
Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 08:08, Harald Arnesen wrote:
> > >
> > > What I will be doing is as Alex said, use the same /boot and swap
> > > partitions. Then simply add Gentoo to the lilo.conf file already
> > > on Mandrake.
> >
> > It is also usually a good idea to have /home on its own partition,
> > and share that as well.
>
> I should have given more detail, sorry. Mandrake is on the first
> third of my drive. My current partitions are
>
> hda1 /boot
> hda5 /
> hda6 /usr
> hda7 /home
> hda8 swap
>
> I will make new partitions for all but /boot and swap. Is there not a
> chance that a shared /home partition might cause problems if there are
> different versions of software installed on Gentoo?
I did it for a while and never had a problem, I shared the /home and
/swap partitions between 2 distros for months. It might depend on the
software program, but most things stored in ~/ stay pretty
compatable between versions in my experience anyway.
I just got tired of rebooting...
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