[H-GEN] Installing multiple Linuxes

[Robert Stanford]

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On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 15:21, Harry Phillips wrote:
 
> My suggestion is to use the same UID and GID for your users for
> all distros. That way all users will have the correct permissions on your
> /home partition.

Good point
 
> As for the common /boot, well I would imagine that each distro would stomp
> all over the others and you may get unpredictable results. Just leave the
> /boot
> dir on the / partition.
> 

 /boot on each /, wouldnt you need to also mount each other
distributions / and have the local lilo.conf set accordingly and do this
in each root for when your booted into it.

Simple solution, use /usr/sbin/mkboot and make a boot floppy for each
distro. Slow to boot but fault tolerant [1]. I can just see someone
playing round with kernels and lilo and ending up only being able to
boot one distro and then asking dad for help.
 
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[1] Cept for the reliability of the media.


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