On Wed 14 Jul 2004 at 16:33:01, Bryan Murdock said:
> 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?

Solution: keep the grub.conf || lilo.conf on the /boot partition, and
symlink to it to the appropriate places in /etc

> 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?

Just make sure you have the same (or very close to) versions of the
software, and you'll be okay.  If not, well, make sure you have at least one
large directory to keep most everything in.

One other caveat to the unified /home dir that could be a major hang-up:
make sure your userid (numerical) is the same between all three distros.
Otherwise, you won't be able to write to your own homedir.

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