On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:09:29PM +0530, Vishal Belsare wrote:
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> Am considering installing Slackware 9.0 now, and make it live
> together with Mandrake.
Absolutely no problems on this score ...
>
> Albeit, I am wondering if I can convert the file system on say
> /dev/hda7 from FAT32 to ext3 to install Slackware and at the
> same time share /home mounted on /dev/hda9 and swap on
> /dev/hda10 for BOTH Mandrake 9.1 and Slackware 9.0. Is this
> possible?
>
Installation on a stand alone partition no problem. You can
even mount Slack on the FAT-32 as an UMSDOS, but you need to
dual boot with loadlin to fire off such a set up.
The following partitions can be shared:
a) swap b) /opt
The following should NOT be shared
a) /usr b) /etc c) /var d) /dev
The following are advisable not to share
a) /home b) /root
Problems are
a) UID:GID conflicts
b) rc files for common software (though /root of both distros
work under UID:GID of 0:0, rc conflicts would still exist)
Under Slack, users are normally kept under group "users" (viz
username.users) whereas most rpm distros use user.user. If you
make a group called "users" under MDK and keep users in this
group with same GID, things may co-exist, but even here beware
of rc conflicts.
Just my 2p
Bish
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