[H-GEN] Installing multiple Linuxes

[bob parker]

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On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:21, you wrote:
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> > 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?
>
> 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 idea, I'll go with that.

> 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.

Yeah, what I was thinking of really was to actually have a common kernel
with the 3 /boot areas symlinked into it. But no the complications are not
worth it. The machine is to be used for video editing, and hd??? will be a 
160 gig device made from 2 * 80 hardware striped raid.

So London to a brick there will be kernel compiles to get this little beastie
going the Linux way!  

Will have to setlle for 1 compile at a time followed by 3 installs.
>
> Regards
> Harry Phillips
Thnks 
Bob Parker


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