It seems to me that a /home partition is essential; this is
where you store all the data that needs to be preserved
when you change distros (and, in the process, format the other
partitions).
-----Original Message-----
From: Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil
To: Dr.R.S.Chakravarti
Sent: 3/17/2004 12:19 PM
Subject: RE: [Mailinglist] Linux installation doubts
Sir,
Thank you very much for your kind help. I'd installed Slackware
9.0, Fedora 1.0 and Peanut 9.5 with one /swap partition. I didn't try
installing with one /home directory...thought I'd try that a bit later.
Last week my brother came and removed Fedora and Peanut and installed
Suse 9.0. So now I've Slackware and Suse. Right now I'am working on
configuring my Smartlink winmodem. Smartlink has drivers for Linux on
its website and I've installed them. But there still seems to be a bit
of a problem... the modem dials and connects to the no. but then it goes
into a too long an initialization phase; before installing the
driver,the modem wouldn't dial.
Thank you for everything
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr.R.S.Chakravarti"
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:53:03 +0530
To: 'Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil ' ,"'[email protected] '"
Subject: RE: [Mailinglist] Linux installation doubts
> The same swap partition can be used by all three distros.
> Only one will be running at any given time!
>
> The same /home partition can be used for all three
> but it is probably essential that each username
> is for only one distro. In other words,
> there should be three sets of users,
> no two of which have any common members.
>
> The reason for this is that
> the individual configuration files
> (whose names begin with a dot)
> are different for each distro.
>
> I found this out the hard way
> (with Red Hat and Caldera).
>
> This seems a totally safe approach.
> If not, please share your experience.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: 2/23/2004 3:57 PM
> Subject: [Mailinglist] Linux installation doubts
>
> Hello group,
>
> My doubts are:
>
> 1. I've 256 MB RAM on my system. Is one /swap partition of 512 MB
enough
> if I plan to install three distros, i.e. for three / native partitions
> or do I need to have three /swap partitions of 512 MB each ?
>
> 2. I wish to have three / native partitions and another partition for
> /home. Now can this /home partition be common for the three distros ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Zaheer Mohamed Kozhakkaniyil
>
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