Thanks Soren, I REALLY appreciate the info!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Soren Harward Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 4:13 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Newbie Help Subject: Re: [newbies] Which Linux Distributions do you recommend?
On Wed 14 Jul 2004 at 15:23:57, David Darrough said:
Thanks, I appreciate the input. I had considered Gentoo and think I will give it a try. I might also try Debian. Do you think 20 GB partitions will be fine for each distribution?
20 will be plenty for everything.
In fact, I recommend the following:
20 GB /home (and mount this on all three distributions so you can have the same files everywhere) 10 GB / for Fedora 8 GB / for Debian 15 GB / for Gentoo
Swap space as needed, and a small (50 meg or so) /boot partition that's mounted by all three distributions. Gentoo needs more space because you're going to be compiling almost everything from the source code.
If you are going to have them share /boot is there ever a problem with one overwriting the grub.conf or lilo.conf of the other, or all the installers smart enough to see that you are dual or triple booting multiple distros?
Also, is it really smart to use the same home dir for each? Aren't there configuration settings kept in your home dir that will get stepped on when switching from one distro to another? My recent evolution problem makes me think it might be easier, especially if you are going to be playing around a lot, to keep things separate.
Bryan
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