According to David Leaumont: While burning my CPU.
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> Thanks for all of the great info on my earlier post.
> I have a new question. First, I made a mistake in my
> earlier description of my system. I am running a dual
> Win98/ RH5.2 system. i have only updated one driver,
> support for my Banshee video card. I want to install
> RH 6.0 or Slackware or both on a large unused HD. Do
> I need to make a new Swap partition for each version
> of Linux that I install?
Not if its on the same H/D, now you said new H/D, yes it would be adviseble
to create a swap partition, then if you decide to swap your disks around or
even buy a new machine and want to put that H/D in the new machine you will
have a "complete" distro ready for use.
You dont need to create a new swap partition for different versions.
Slackware for instance will recognise the swap partition on /dev/hda when
you install and will ask you if you want to use it.
> I am installing these other
> versions to learn because I know very little outside
> (or inside for that matter) of RH 5.2. And are there
> any pitfalls i should know about in doing this since
> this isn't a normal practice. I wish I had a
> colleague that had one of these versions but i am the
> first in my clique to experiment outside of the
> Windoze environment. Thanks in advance-Dave
Not realy any pitfalls, just DONT install LILO when installing another
system on another part of the drive, just install it all and skip LILO.
Reboot into your origanal distro, edit /etc/lilo.conf add a new entry for the
new system rerun LILO and then boot the new system.
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