[H-GEN] Installing multiple Linuxes

[bob parker]

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On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 11:51, you wrote:
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> On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, bob parker wrote:
> > Proposed partition table:
> > hda1	3.0 gb	to be Debian '/'
> > hda2	3.0 gb	to be Suse '/'
> > hda3	3.0 gb	to be Mandrake '/'
> > hda4	30.5 gb	'/home/' common mount for all 3 distros
> > hda5	500 mb	reserved for future common /boot, modules etc
> > Is that possible?
>
> If you're going to bother with a /boot, put it at the beginning of the
> disk.  I wouldn't share a common /boot anyway as the distributions are
> likely to smash all over each other when installing stuff there.
>
> Also, if you want to try muliple Linuxen and vmware is out of the question
> (or even if it isn't :) consider User Model Linux
> (http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net and http://www.usermodelinux.org).
>
> Very clean solution to running multiple Linuxen.  Performance is always a
> possible issue when talking about any machine abstraction like Vmware or
> UML.  Unless a user hits the box hard with games or compiles, etc they
> aren't too likely to notice.
>
> Cheers,
> 	-Rob
Thanks, this box to be used for video to cd and later to dvd when the price 
of the dvd burner and dvd-r comes down from the stratosphere. Also he is 
delaying dvd burning until standards are stable.

I think performance precludes any form of virual machine. 

One of the hopes in going to Linux is to get better speed compared to 
WondersXP. Also I think that having used a Linux box once, anything MS
offer will not really offer suuficient satisfaction.

There is one issue though and that is printing! I hope that these latest 
Linux offerings will be rather more printer friendly than in the past.

Regards 
Bob Parker

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