Hi all,
I'm planning a system that has a few different Linux distros that I want to try, in addition to Debian. Seems like a good thing to have separate partitions to share between them. First order approximation was:
/home /usr/local /boot
so all distros can share things like kernels. But then I realized /home
wouldn't do since different distros have different versions of this and
that, and therefore have different dot files.
Not sure why this would be a problem. Newer versions of programs are often backwards compatible with the config files that reside in /home. If not, usually the file changes names. Personally, I would want to share /home most of all.
So that leaves:
/usr/local /boot
to share between distros. I *was* thinking of making /usr/local FAT32 so it can be accessible under MS Windows if necessary. But then I found that there's an ext2 filesystem driver for MS Windows (wow!). [1]
Also, FAT32 does NOT seem support symlinks, so this can be a major problem for some program functionality. It does store data just fine, so I often make a separate FAT32 partition to share between Windows and Linux on my dual boot computers. I haven't checked out reading ext2/3 in windows yet, but I have heard of it.
Lastly, I was toying around with the idea of installing bona-fide DOS onto a partition to do some debugging of DOSEMU.
I was just wondering if anyone has done this kind of thing before, and if so, had any helpful tips.
Pete
[1] At work, I have to use Outlook, and I'm absolutely miserable. So miserable that sometimes I'll open up gvim, compose my message, and cut and paste into Outlook.
As an act of desperation, I did a Google search for "vim Outlook" and found there's some kind of plugin for Outlook that gives you a vimish editor to work with. Definitely on my list of things to do.
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